Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as one of the most influential
philosophers of the twentieth-century, and his seminal text Being
and Time is considered one of the most significant texts in
contemporary philosophy. Yet his name has also been mired in
controversy because of his affiliations with the Nazi regime, his
failure to criticize its genocidal politics and his subsequent
silence about the holocaust. Now, according to Heidegger's wishes,
and to complete the publication of his multi-volume Complete Works,
his highly controversial and secret 'Black Notebooks' have been
released to the public. These notebooks reveal the extent to which
Heidegger's 'personal Nazism' was neither incidental nor
opportunistic, but part of his philosophical ethos. So, why would
Heidegger, far from destroying them, allow these notebooks, which
contain examples of this extreme thinking, to be published? In this
revealing new book, Peter Trawny, editor of Heidegger's complete
works in German, confronts these questions and, by way of a
compelling study of his theoretical work, shows that Heidegger was
committed to a conception of freedom that is only beholden to the
judgement of the history of being; that is, that to be free means
to be free from the prejudices, norms, or mores of one's time.
Whoever thinks the truth of being freely exposes themselves to the
danger of epochal errancy. For this reason, Heidegger's decision to
publish his notebooks, including their anti-Jewish passages, was an
exercise of this anarchical freedom. In the course of a
wide-ranging discussion of Heidegger's views on truth, ethics, the
truth of being, tragedy and his relationship to other figures such
as Nietzsche and Schmitt, Trawny provides a compelling argument for
why Heidegger wanted the explosive material in his Black Notebooks
to be published, whilst also offering an original and provocative
interpretation of Heidegger's work.
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