Heidegger and the question of National Socialism : disclosure and gestalt / Bernhard Radloff.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Radloff, Bernhard.

Series:

New studies in phenomenology and hermeneutics (Toronto, Ont.)

New studies in phenomenology and hermeneutics

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976--Political and social views.

Heidegger, Martin.

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Political and social views.

Physical Description:

xiii, 489 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Toronto ; Buffalo : University of Toronto Press, [2007]

Contents:

The Problem of Formlessness 3

Heidegger's Transformation of Gestalt Discourse 13

1 The Challenge of the Planetary 36

1.1 Earth and Site 36

1.2 The Differentiation of Being and the Distinction of Sein and Seyn 48

2 Rhetoric and the Public Sphere 62

2.1 Rhetoric, Truth, and the Public Sphere 62

2.2 Rhetoric in Sein und Zeit 72

2.3 The Limits of Rhetoric: Philosophy, Weltanschauung, Rhetoric 83

3 Heidegger and the Conservative Revolution 88

3.1 Heidegger's Retrieval of Aristotle and the Relation of Volk and Science in the Rector's Address of 1933 88

3.1.1 The Grounds of Science and 'The Self-Assertion of the German University' 88

3.1.2 Volk, or Volksein, as the Movement of a Way-of-Being 100

3.2 Heidegger's Confrontation with the Discourses of National Socialism and the Conservative Revolution 111

3.2.1 Volk and Race 126

3.2.2 State, Volk, Earth 133

3.2.3 State, Science, and Leadership 140

3.2.4 Gestalt and Type 155

3.2.5 Volk Embodied, Enacted 160

4 Volk, Work, and Historicity in Heidegger's Logik of 1934 173

4.1 Volk as Movement of Withdrawal from Objectification 174

4.2 Volk and Limit 180

4.3 The Attunement of Volk to Being 198

4.4 The Differentiated Identity of Volk 201

4.5 Volk and Self-Responsibility 206

5.1 Overcoming Intellectualism 211

5.1.1 Being and Becoming 215

5.1.2 Being and Appearance 216

5.1.3 Being and Thought 217

5.1.4 Being and the Ought 218

5.2 The Hermeneutic Situation: Siting the Question of Being 218

5.2.1 Being as the 'Measure' of the Political 221

5.2.2 Ousia 223

5.2.3 Spirit and Historicity 227

5.2.4 The Founding of Being in the Polis: Techne 231

5.3 Attunement and the Dis-attunement of Intellectualism 234

5.3.1 Founding the Polis in the Homelessness of Being-toward-Death 237

5.3.2 Polemos: Founding the Differentiation of Being 242

5.3.3 Parmenides: Overcoming the Chorismos of Intellectualism 244

6 Heidegger and Carl Schmitt: The Historicity of the Political 256

6.1 Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism 256

6.2 The Historicity of the Political 269

6.2.1 Volk 269

6.2.2 Subjectivity and Representation 272

6.2.3 State and Volk 277

6.2.4 State and Society 282

6.2.5 Polemos 284

7 The Beitrage zur Philosophie and the Differentiation of Being 291

7.1 Volk, Differentiation, Founding 294

7.1.1 Volk and the Differentiation of Being 294

7.1.2 The Experience of the Destitution and Sheltering Unconcealment of Beings 303

7.1.3 The Presencing of Being (Wesung) 308

7.1.4 Founding 310

7.2 The Artwork and the Site of the Political in the Beitrage 316

7.2.1 Artwork and Community 318

7.2.2 Truth as the Sheltering Unconcealment of Being in Beings 321

7.2.3 Truth and Untruth of the Image 328

7.3 Limit and Gestalt: Heidegger's Retrieval of Aristotle, the Work of Art, and the Possibility of the Political 334

7.3.1 The Retrieval of Eidos and the Question of Truth 337

7.3.2 The Mode of Being of the Work of Art 342

7.3.3 The Artwork in the Light of Phusis 346

7.3.3.1 Kinesis and Metabole 347

7.3.3.2 Ousia and Peras 348

7.3.3.3 Morphe and Hyle 350

7.3.3.4 Morphe and Energeia/Entelecheia 351

7.3.3.5 Poiesis and Steresis 352

7.3.3.6 Phusis as Ousia and Being 353

7.3.3.7 Phusis and Techne 354

7.3.4 Setting-into-Work the Historicity of Earth and World 356

7.4 Style and the Gestalt of Global Technology 361

7.4.1 Ernst Junger and the Gestalt of Technology 366

7.4.2 Junger's Der Arbeiter 371

7.4.3 Gestalt 372

7.4.4 Being and Limit 374

7.4.5 Gestalt and Archetype 375

7.4.6 Work and the Worker 377

7.4.7 Mobilization 379

7.4.8 Totalization and Modernity 381

7.4.9 Postmodern Junger 384

7.4.10 Heidegger and Junger 385

7.5 Freedom and the Ethos of Da-sein 399

Conclusion: Imperial Truth and Planetary Order 411.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [449]-475) and index.

ISBN:

9780802093158

0802093159

OCLC:

150223075