"Daimon Life is life-enchancing. To read it is to become richer
in wor(l)d." John Llewelyn
Disclosure of Martin Heidegger s complicity with the National
Socialist regime in 1933-34 has provoked virulent debate about the
relationship between his politics and his philosophy. Did Heidegger
s philosophy exhibit a kind of organicism readily transformed into
ideological "blood and soil"? Or, rather, did his support of the
Nazis betray a fundamental lack of loyalty to living things? David
Farrell Krell traces Heidegger s political authoritarianism to his
failure to develop a constructive "life-philosophy" his phobic
reactions to other forms of being. Krell details Heidegger s
opposition to Lebensphilosophie as expressed in Being and Time, in
an important but little-known lecture course on theoretical biology
given in 1929 30 called "The Basic Concepts of Metaphysics," and in
a recently published key text, Contributions to Philosophy, written
in 1936 38. Although Heidegger s attempt to think through the
problems of life, sexual reproduction, behavior, environment, and
the ecosystem ultimately failed, Krell contends that his methods of
thinking nonetheless pose important tasks for our own thought.
Drawing on and away from Heidegger, Krell expands on the topics of
life, death, sexuality, and spirit as these are treated by Freud,
Nietzsche, Derrida, and Irigaray. Daimon Life addresses issues
central to contemporary philosophies of politics, gender, ecology,
and theoretical biology."
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