This remark is famous. alluded to by Coetzee, Cavill, others and

[Rev'd Seventy-Six]

Making Heidy the model for Brumhold in Abish's 'How German Is It,' I'd
warrant. Knew that guy seemed familiar...

On 8/5/13, Mark Kohut <markekohut at yahoo.com> wrote:
> perhaps behind TRP's use in the cattle to slaughter scene (and riff) within
> Against the Day, wherein TRP seems to use
> the link from his beloved Weber--on rationalisation---to this linkage from
> Heidegger. yes?
>
> In his postwar thinking, Heidegger distanced himself from Nazism, but his
> critical comments about Nazism seem "scandalous" to some since they tend to
> equate the Nazi war atrocities with other inhumane practices related to
> rationalisation and industrialisation, including the treatment of animals by
> factory farming. For instance in a lecture delivered at Bremen in 1949,
> Heidegger said: "Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same
> thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and
> the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of
> countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen
> bombs."[93]


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