"Heideggers Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry" by James Phillips
"Heideggers Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry" by James Phillips
Cultural Memory in the Present
Stan. Uni. Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0804750718 9780804750714 9780804750707 | 296 pages | PDF | 7 MB
Cultural Memory in the Present
Stan. Uni. Press | 2005 | ISBN: 0804750718 9780804750714 9780804750707 | 296 pages | PDF | 7 MB
This volume unravels the many philosophical layers involved with Heidegger's Volk, leaving the legacy of the thinker himself in the hands of the individual reader
In 1933 the philosopher Martin Heidegger declared his allegiance to Hitler. Ever since, scholars have asked to what extent his work is implicated in Nazism.
On the basis of an untimely but by no means unprecedented understanding of the mission of the German people, the philosopher first joined but then also criticized the movement. An exposition of Heideggers conception of Volk hence can and must treat its merits and deficiencies as a response to the enduring impasse in contemporary political philosophy of the dilemma between liberalism and authoritarianism.
Contents
Introduction
1 The Death of Hegel
2 Ontological Opportunism
3 The Feast
4 Toward the Uncanny Homeland
5 The Geschlecht of the Poem
Conclusion
Notes
Index
with TOC BookMarkLinks