Heidegger's Fascist Affinities : A Politics of Silence / Adam Knowles.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Knowles, Adam, Author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

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

Heidegger, Martin.

National socialism and philosophy.

Totalitarianism--Philosophy.

Totalitarianism.

Fascism--Germany.

Fascism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (234 pages)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press, [2020]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

Reexamining the case of one of the most famous intellectuals to embrace fascism, this book argues that Martin Heidegger's politics and philosophy of language emerge from a deep affinity for the ethno-nationalist and anti-Semitic politics of the Nazi movement. Himself a product of a conservative milieu, Heidegger did not have to significantly compromise his thinking to adapt it to National Socialism but only to intensify certain themes within it. Tracing the continuity of these themes in his lectures on Greek philosophy, his magnum opus, Being and Time, and the notorious Black Notebooks that have only begun to see the light of day, Heidegger's Fascist Affinities argues that if Heidegger was able to align himself so thoroughly with Nazism, it was partly because his philosophy was predicated upon fundamental forms of silencing and exclusion. With the arrival of the Nazi revolution, Heidegger displayed—both in public and in private—a complex, protracted form of silence drawn from his philosophy of language. Avoiding the easy satisfaction of banishing Heidegger from the philosophical realm so indebted to his work, Adam Knowles asks whether what drove Heidegger to Nazism in the first place might continue to haunt the discipline. In the context of today's burgeoning ethno-nationalist regimes, can contemporary philosophy ensure itself of its immunity?

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Prologue: Hidden in Plain Sight

1 Heidegger’s Politics of Silence

2 Völkisch Affinities and Renewal of the German Spirit

3 The Unsaid in Being and Time

4 Withdrawal in Aristotle’s Metaphysics

5 Being the Measure: The Pedagogy of Male Self-Mastery

6 Being without Measure: Silencing the Feminine

7 Land and Volk: The Silent Place of the Black Notebooks

Epilogue: Philosophy and Totalitarianism

Notes

References

Index

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9781503608795

1503608794

OCLC:

1178768965