Arendt and Heidegger, the postwar 'friendship"

[Fiona Shnapple]

Say, can I have some of that shit your smokin, son? I'm sitting here
with the books, providing page numbers as the boys here dribble round
in the corner. Just thought I'd kick it over the touch line and get
the fucking corner kick in so someone can head the ball back into a
book. any book. Got one, son? How about that new Pynchon book? Wanna
talk blood?

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 9:52 AM, Raymond Easton
<raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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