Arendt and Heidegger, the postwar 'friendship"

Fiona Shnapple fionashnapple at gmail.com
Fri Dec 6 09:13:25 CST 2013


I must be getting dumber than the dumb I wuz, cause I'm missing all
the phun Joaks round this PeeiList. I never learned German,
English...but I met Humpty Dumpty once. So can tell a Hamlet from a
Hawk holding a Handsaw and threatening to cut himself with it.

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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