Language:
English
Year of publication:
1992
Titel der Quelle:
Philosophia; Philosophical Quarterly of Israel
Angaben zur Quelle:
21,3-4 (1992) 183-199
Keywords:
Heidegger, Martin, Philosophy
;
Derrida, Jacques Criticism and interpretation
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National socialism Philosophy
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Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)
Abstract:
Criticizes Jacques Derrida's contention (in "Of Spirit, Heidegger and the Question") that Heidegger's philosophy as expounded in his "Being and Time" should be separated from his politics. Heidegger's definition of "Dasein" was initially differentiated from the classical philosophical concept of spirit. However, in his Freiburg address, Heidegger called for a German spirit in an attempt to save Nazism from racism. Derrida assumes that the return of Heidegger to this misguided Western philosophy only furthered totalitarianism; it is only by deconstruction of that philosophy that the problems of evil can be solved. Contends that Derrida accepted Heidegger's postwar apologetics (i.e. that his support for Nazism was contingent on spiritual perspectives, and that his philosophical position should count for tacit opposition to the regime) which only furthers revisionist thinking. Similarly, Derrida's outlook does not distinguish between good and evil, or between victims and perpetrators.
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In Hebrew:
,
עכשיו; ספרות, אמנות, ביקורת 59 (תשנג) 23-36
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