Heidegger's Fascist Affinities
"Heidegger's insistence on the authority of the silent led him to view National Socialism as a panacea for modernity's technological attempt to render transparent all that is spoken and known. Adam Knowles's exceptional book opens up a new window onto the philosopher's embrace of Nazism and its attack on World Jewry."
Michael Meng, Clemson University
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. Les mer
Detaljer
- Forlag
- Stanford University Press
- Innbinding
- Innbundet
- Språk
- Engelsk
- Sider
- 256
- ISBN
- 9781503608191
- Utgivelsesår
- 2019
- Format
- 23 x 15 cm
Anmeldelser
"Heidegger's insistence on the authority of the silent led him to view National Socialism as a panacea for modernity's technological attempt to render transparent all that is spoken and known. Adam Knowles's exceptional book opens up a new window onto the philosopher's embrace of Nazism and its attack on World Jewry."
Michael Meng, Clemson University
"Adam Knowles integrates a rigorous reading of Heidegger's published writings and lecture courses with a nuanced discussion of the notorious Black Notebooks. The result is a new and challenging approach to the philosopher's silence about the Holocaust that cannot be ignored."
Robert Bernasconi, Pennsylvania State University
"Adam Knowles's innovative and elegantly written book invites everyone concerned about the impact of authoritarian regimes to ponder the past—and the present—anew. Knowles illuminates the integral nature of Heidegger's politics and philosophy with amazing clarity, never losing sight of the big-picture question: how the humanities respond to totalitarian rule."
Debórah Dwork, Strassler Center for Holocaust and Genocide Studies
"This game-changing book delivers a profound assessment of Martin Heidegger's anti-Semitism and Nazism. Combining painstaking historical research with astute analysis, Adam Knowles raises key questions about philosophy's resolve to resist complicity in oppressive politics."
John K. Roth, Claremont McKenna College
"[Heidegger's Fascist Affinities] raises grave questions about Heidegger's thought, politics and continuing reception, as well as their relation to the intellectual foundations of Nazism, and the relationship between philosophy and authoritarianism. The book deserves and will reward critical debate."
Matt Sharpe, <i>Marx & Philosophy</i>