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Heidegger and the Jews - The Black Notebooks (Paperback)
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Heidegger and the Jews - The Black Notebooks (Paperback)
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Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's
involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest
thinkers of the twentieth century. The recent publication of his
Black Notebooks has reignited fierce debate on the subject. These
thousand-odd pages of jotted observations profoundly challenge our
image of the quiet philosopher's exile in the Black Forest,
revealing the shocking extent of his anti-Semitism for the first
time. For much of the philosophical community, the Black Notebooks
have been either used to discredit Heidegger or seen as a
bibliographical detail irrelevant to his thought. Yet, in this new
book, renowned philosopher Donatella Di Cesare argues that
Heidegger's "metaphysical anti-Semitism" was a central part of his
philosophical project. Within the context of the Nuremberg race
laws, Heidegger felt compelled to define Jewishness and its
relationship to his concept of Being. Di Cesare shows that
Heidegger saw the Jews as the agents of a modernity that had
disfigured the spirit of the West. In a deeply disturbing
extrapolation, he presented the Holocaust as both a means for the
purification of Being and the Jews' own "self-destruction" a
process of death on an industrialized scale that was the logical
conclusion of the acceleration in technology they themselves had
brought about. Situating Heidegger's anti-Semitism firmly within
the context of his thought, this groundbreaking work will be
essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy and
history as well as the many readers interested in Heidegger's life,
work, and legacy.
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