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Martin Heidegger may be the 20th century's maximum thinker, and his paintings inspired a lot that's unique and compelling in glossy notion. A seductive lecture room presence, he attracted Germany's brightest younger intellects in the course of the Twenties. Many have been Jews, who finally must reconcile their philosophical and, usually, own commitments to Heidegger together with his nefarious political views.

In 1933, Heidegger solid his lot with nationwide Socialism. He squelched the careers of Jewish scholars and denounced fellow professors whom he thought of insufficiently radical. For years, he signed letters and opened lectures with ''Heil Hitler!'' He paid dues to the Nazi get together till the sour finish. both problematical for his former scholars have been his sordid efforts to make existential concept serviceable to Nazi ends and his failure to ever surrender those actions.

This publication explores how 4 of Heidegger's such a lot influential Jewish scholars got here to grips together with his Nazi organization and the way it affected their considering. Hannah Arendt, who used to be Heidegger's lover in addition to his scholar, went directly to turn into one of many century's maximum political thinkers. Karl Löwith lower back to Germany in 1953 and fast turned considered one of its major philosophers. Hans Jonas grew well-known as Germany's most appropriate thinker of environmentalism. Herbert Marcuse won megastar as a Frankfurt university highbrow and mentor to the hot Left.

Why did those extraordinary minds fail to spot what was once in Heidegger's middle and Germany's destiny? How might they, after the battle, reappraise Germany's highbrow traditions? may they salvage elements of Heidegger's idea? might their philosophy mirror or thoroughly reject their early reviews? might those Heideggerians forgive, or perhaps attempt to comprehend, the betrayal of the fellow they so sought after? Heidegger's Children locates those paradoxes within the wider merciless irony that ecu Jews skilled their maximum calamity instantly following their fullest assimilation. And it reveals of their responses solutions to questions about the character of existential disillusionment and the juncture among politics and ideas.

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81. 56. Levinas, “Martin Heidegger et l’ontologie,” Revue philosophique de la France et de l’étranger, 53, no. 5–6 (May-June, 1932), 395. 57. Dostoyevsky, The Brothers Karamazov, trans. David McDuff (London: Penguin Books, 1993), 332; emphasis added. 58. See the important essay, “Ethics as First Philosophy,” in S. : Blackwell, 1989), 75–87. 59. , 77–78. 60. , trans. R. Cohen (Pittsburgh: Duquesne University Press, 1985): 39–41. 61. See Otto Pöggeler, “Den Führer führen: Heidegger, Nationalsozialismus, und kein Ende,” Philosophische Rundschau.

Nietzsche, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, XII, 3. 27. Jonas, Memoirs, 59–60. 28. Harold Bloom, The Anxiety of Influence: A Theory of Poetry (New York: Oxford University Press, 1997). 29. : MIT Press, 1993), 30. 30. See, for example, Peter Gordon, Rosenzweig and Heidegger (Berkeley: University of California Press, 2002), 7. • N OT E S T O T H E P R E FAC E • xlv 31. Like Heidegger’s Children, The Politics of Being was also rapidly translated into five languages (French, German, Japanese, Chinese, and Portuguese).

Of course, the publishing dispute itself was merely the tip of the iceberg. “L’Affaire Derrida,” as it came to be known, was, as the Freudians might say, highly overdetermined. As it turned out, Derrida and his supporters utilized the occasion to respond to a variety of events that had, justly or unjustly, besmirched the repute of deconstruction: first, the de Man affair, in which it was revealed that Derrida’s chief transatlantic benefactor had compromised himself as a collaborator in Nazi-occupied Belgium; then, the revelations concerning the depths and extent of Heidegger’s own activities on behalf of the Nazis—insinuations that, for decades, had been successfully parried by Heidegger and a battery of faithful disciples.

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