European University Institute Library

Heidegger's Black notebooks, responses to anti-Semitism, edited by Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny

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Heidegger's Black notebooks

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edited by Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny

responses to anti-Semitism

The 2014 publication of the first three volumes of Martin Heidegger's Black Notebooks, the philosopher's private writings from the war years, sparked international controversy. While Heidegger's engagement with National Socialism was well known, as were a handful of his private anti-Semitic comments, the Black Notebooks showed for the first time that this anti-Semitism was not merely a personal resentment.The notebooks contain not just anti-Semitic remarks but anti-Semitism deeply embedded in the language of his thought. In them, Heidegger tried to assign a philosophical significance to anti-Semitism, with "the Jew" or "world Judaism" cast as antagonist in his project.How, then, are we to engage with a philosophy that, no matter how significant, seems contaminated by anti-Semitism? This book brings together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the ramifications of the Black Notebooks for philosophy and the humanities at large. Bettina Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Martin Gessmann, Sander Gilman, Peter E. Gordon, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Marder, Eduardo Mendieta, Richard Polt, Tom Rockmore, Peter Trawny, and Slavoj Zizek discuss issues including anti-Semitism in the Black Notebooks and Heidegger's thought more broadly, such as German conceptions of Jews and Judaism, Heidegger's notions of metaphysics, and anti-Semitism's entanglement with Heidegger's views on modernity and technology, grappling with material as provocative as it is deplorable.--, Provided by Publisher

The universal and annihilation: Heidegger's being-historical anti-semitism / Peter Trawny -- Cosmopolitan Jews vs. Jewish nomads: Sources of a trope in Heidegger's Black Notebooks / Sander L. Gilman -- Metaphysical anti-semitism and worldlessnes: On world poorness, world forming, and world destroying / Eduardo Mendieta -- "Sterben Sie?": The problem of Dasein and "Animals"... of various kinds / Bettina Bergo -- Inception, downfall, and the broken world: Heidegger above the sea of fog / Richard Polt -- The other "Jewish question" / Michael Marder -- Heidegger and national socialism: He meant what he said / Martin Gessmann -- "The supreme will of the people": What do Heidegger's Black Notebooks reveal? / Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht -- Prolegomena to any future destruction of metaphysics: Heidegger and the Schwarze Hefte / Peter E. Gordon -- Heidegger after Trawny: Philosophy or worldview? / Tom Rockmore -- Another Eisenmenger? On the alleged originality of Heidegger's antisemitism / Robert Bernasconi -- The persistence of ontological difference / Slavoj Žižek