German Existentialism by Martin Heidegger (PDF)

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These pro-Nazi speeches by the author Being and Time are collected here to demonstrate the truly dark and shameful turn taken by the eminent philosopher. “On the day of German Labor, on the day of the Community of the People, the Rector of Freiburg University, Dr. Martin Heidegger, made his official entry into the National Socialist Party.” And so begins one of the most controversial texts available today. Heidegger, a German Nationalist and proud Nazi, thoroughly examines the history, the philosophy, and the rise to power of the Nazi movement in Germany. Martin Heidegger’s distinguished Italian colleague, Professor Benedetto Croce, said of his German contemporary, “This man dishonors philosophy and that is an evil for politics too.” Croce’s severe rebuke was not singular at the time when Hitlerism was rampant over Europe. It is true that among the almost one thousand professional philosophers of Germany and Austria only very few actively opposed National Socialism. On the other hand, no one degraded his history profession in the way that Heidegger did, by becoming a spokesman for National socialism and attempting to mold his theories into one pattern with Hitlerism.

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⭐This book shows that a brilliant man can be profoundly evil.

⭐The title of this 38 page collection is misleading, since neither Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), nor any other prominent German philosopher, ever wished to be called “existentialist.” Grossly incomplete and poorly translated, it seems intended to incite tabloid-like feelings, rather than serve the scholarly community (not to mention its strong cover design). As such, one should avoid it as a serious reference, unless matched with other publications of Heidegger’s writing of the same period — the headache avoidable by avoiding this piece in the first place. Its sole value is in the date of its publication: 1965 — more than two decades prior to Victor Farias’ 1987 *Heidegger et le nazisme* (1989 Eng trans. Paul Burrell and Gabriel R. Ricci, as *Heidegger and Nazism*). While *German Existentialism* was passed unnoticed in the U.S., *Heidegger et la nazisme* brought outrage among Heidegger supporters both in the U.S. and in Europe (more balanced, sympathetic reactions by Gadamer, Derrida, Levinas, Lowith, and Muller, in addition to Heidegger’s own postwar defense, are included in Gunther Neske and Emil Keterring’s excellent collection: *Antwort Martin Heidegger im Gesprach;* Eng trans. Lisa Harris and Joachim Neugraoschel, as *Martin Heidegger and National Socialism,* 1990). In view of these and numerous other books and journal-articles on the topic, this book’s sole value, as suggested above, is for its precedence as a forerunner in this language. I have kept a copy in my shelf. It does not occupy much space.

⭐Interesting book, but only for historians, not for dogmatists

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