Arendt and Heidegger, the postwar 'friendship"

[Raymond Easton]

To understand what Heidegger means by 'Volk', Alice, surely one should read 
*Heidegger*, not HA.  Kai's analysis (taken with a grain of salt, yes!)  
seems correct.  Yours seems to me superficial, the sort of thing that 
results from reading second rate thinkers writing about Heidegger rather 
than Heidegger's works themselves.

A different question bothers me when I reflect on the relationship between 
Heidegger's work and his Nazism:  not 'is this philosophy somehow "Nazi"?', 
but rather 'of what use can this mode of thinking be if it allows one to 
become a Nazi?'.

An aside:  I often used to joke -- stealing this from someone 
(Kierkegaard?) and modifying it -- that I learned German to read Hegel, but 
was rewarded by discovering Holderlin.

Ray

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