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Martin Heidegger and the First World War - Being and Time as Funeral Oration (Paperback)
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Martin Heidegger and the First World War - Being and Time as Funeral Oration (Paperback)
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In a 1934 speech, marking the Twenty-fifth Reunion of his high
school class, Martin Heidegger spoke eloquently of classmates
killed in the Great War and called on his audience to recognize
that the national rebirth now occuring in Hitler's Germany must
continue to draw inspiration from the war dead. In this process, he
refers to the war of 1914-1918 as "the First World War." Since the
condition for the possibility of "the First" is a Second World War,
Martin Heidegger and the First World War raises the question: how
could Heidegger have already known in 1934 that another war was
coming? The answer is to be found by reading Being and Time (1927)
as a funeral oration for the warriors of the Great War, a reading
that validates Heidegger's paradoxical claim that the genuinely
historical must emerge from the future. By using Lincoln's
"Gettysburg Address" as an archetype of the genre, William H. F.
Altman shows that Heidegger's concept of temporality in Being and
Time replicates the way past, present, and future interweave in the
classic funeral oration and argues that if there is a visible path
connecting Being and Time to its author's subsequent decision for
National Socialism, it runs through the trenches of the Great War
and its author's successful attempt to evade them. The analysis and
conclusions in this book will be of great value to students and
scholars interested in philosophy, history, intellectual history,
German studies, and political science.
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