Arendt and Heidegger, the postwar 'friendship"

[Fiona Shnapple]

Bleed on me...we all need someone.

On Fri, Dec 6, 2013 at 10:13 AM, Fiona Shnapple <fionashnapple at gmail.com> wrote:
> 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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