The 2014 publication of the first three volumes of Martin
Heidegger's Black Notebooks, the philosopher's private writings
from the war years, sparked international controversy. While
Heidegger's engagement with National Socialism was well known, as
were a handful of his private anti-Semitic comments, the Black
Notebooks showed for the first time that this anti-Semitism was not
merely a personal resentment.The notebooks contain not just
anti-Semitic remarks but anti-Semitism deeply embedded in the
language of his thought. In them, Heidegger tried to assign a
philosophical significance to anti-Semitism, with "the Jew" or
"world Judaism" cast as antagonist in his project. How, then, are
we to engage with a philosophy that, no matter how significant,
seems contaminated by anti-Semitism? This book brings together an
international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines to
discuss the ramifications of the Black Notebooks for philosophy and
the humanities at large. Bettina Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Martin
Gessmann, Sander Gilman, Peter E. Gordon, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht,
Michael Marder, Eduardo Mendieta, Richard Polt, Tom Rockmore, Peter
Trawny, and Slavoj Zizek discuss issues including anti-Semitism in
the Black Notebooks and Heidegger's thought more broadly, such as
German conceptions of Jews and Judaism, Heidegger's notions of
metaphysics, and anti-Semitism's entanglement with Heidegger's
views on modernity and technology, grappling with material as
provocative as it is deplorable. In contrast to both those who seek
to exonerate Heidegger and those who simply condemn him, and rather
than an all-or-nothing view of Heidegger's anti-Semitism, they urge
careful reading and rereading of his work to turn Heideggerian
thought against itself. These measured and thoughtful responses to
one of the major scandals in the history of philosophy
unflinchingly take up the tangled and contested legacy of
Heideggerian thought.
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