Language:
English
Year of publication:
1989
Titel der Quelle:
Philosophy Today
Angaben zur Quelle:
33,1 (1989) 3-20
Keywords:
Heidegger, Martin,
;
Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Surveys recent works on Heidegger and National Socialism, concluding that Heidegger had a deep personal commitment to Nazism and that there was an internal link between his political beliefs and his philosophy. Although he rejected crude, biological racism, he adhered to a metaphysical racism, believing in the methaphysical superiority of the German "Volk". Pp. 14-16 discuss Heidegger's silence about the Holocaust, and the question of his antisemitism. States that the evidence is ambiguous - "for some reason, Heidegger would not factor the Jewish issue into his explanation either of recent German or of Western history in general".
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