Heidegger's Volk : between National Socialism and poetry / James Phillips.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Phillips, James, 1970-

Series:

Cultural Memory in the Present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.

Heidegger, Martin.

National socialism.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (295 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2005.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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. To address this question properly involves neither conflating Nazism and the continuing philosophical project that is Heidegger's legacy, nor absolving Heidegger and, in the process, turning a deaf ear to what he himself called the philosophical motivations for his political engagement. It is important to establish the terms on which Heidegger aligned himself with National Socialism. 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 Heidegger's 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:

The death of Hegel

Ontological opportunism

The feast

Toward the uncanny homeland

The geschlecht of the poem.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

0-8047-5654-6

1-4237-1621-3

OCLC:

756704018