Arendt and Heidegger, the postwar 'friendship"

[jochen stremmel]

>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?'.<

I would like to give your question a different spin, Raymond: of what
use can this mode of thinking be if it doesn't enable you to see
through the rhetorics of Hitler, to see Mein Kampf as the rubbish it
is?

2013/12/6 Raymond Easton <raymond.lee.easton at gmail.com>:
> 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.
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> 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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