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Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics - The Heidelberg Conference (Paperback)
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Heidegger, Philosophy, and Politics - The Heidelberg Conference (Paperback)
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In February 1988, philosophers Jacques Derrida, Hans-Georg Gadamer,
and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe came together in Heidelberg before a
large audience to discuss the philosophical and political
implications of Martin Heidegger's thought. This event took place
in the very amphitheater in which, more than fifty years earlier,
Heidegger, as rector of the University of Freiburg and a member of
the Nazi Party, had given a speech entitled "The University in the
New Reich." Heidegger's involvement in Nazism has always been, and
will remain, an indelible scandal, but what is its real relation to
his work and thought? And what are the responsibilities of those
who read this work, who analyze and elaborate this thought?
Conversely, what is at stake in the wholesale dismissal of this
important but compromised twentieth-century philosopher? In 1988,
in the wake of the recent publication of Victor Farias's Heidegger
and Nazism, and of the heated debates that ensued, these questions
had become more pressing than ever. The reflections presented by
three of the most prominent of Heidegger's readers, improvised in
French and transcribed here, were an attempt to approach these
questions before a broad public, but with a depth of knowledge and
a complex sense of the questions at issue that have been often
lacking in the press. Ranging over two days and including exchanges
with one another and with the audience, the discussions pursued by
these major thinkers remain highly relevant today, especially
following the publication of Heidegger's already notorious "Black
Notebooks," which have added another chapter to the ongoing debates
over this contested figure. The present volume recalls a highly
charged moment in this history, while also drawing the debate
toward its most essential questions.
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