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Regarding Heidegger's Anti-Humanism
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 02 April 2024
Heidegger's affirmation is categorical: “… the thinking expressed in Being and Time is against humanism”. Heidegger's thesis is not only categorical, it is also polemical. He maintains that the humanist conception does not grasp man's essence, and it is for this reason that he is opposed to humanism, which is a doctrine that “has not thought profoundly enough of man's humanitas.
1 M. Heidegger, Brief über den Humanismus, in Platon, Lehrer der Wahrheit, Berne, 1949, p. 62.
2 Idem, p. 75.
3 Descartes, Regulae ad directionem ingenii, regula III, in Oeuvres, published by G. Adams and P. Tannery, Paris, Vrin 1947; Discours de la méthode, idem, vol. VI, I. 9.
4 Hegel, Vorlesungen über die Geschichte der Philosophie, Stuttgart, Ed. Glockner 1938, vol. XVII, p. 59.
5 Idem, p. 127.
6 Idem, p. 149.
7 T. Mommsen, Römische Geschichte, III, Berlin, 1933, p. 619.
8 E. Cassirer, Individuum und Kosmos in der Philosophie der Renaissance, Leipzig, Teubner 1927, p. 11.
9 K.O. Apel, Transformation der Philosophie I: Sprachanalytik, Semiotik, Hermeneutik, Frankfurt, 1973, p. 154.
10 W. Jaeger, Antike und Humanismus, in Humanismus, Darmstadt, Ed. Oppermann 1970, p. 22-23.
11 Heidegger, Brief über den Humanismus, op. cit.
12 Idem, p. 62.
13 Idem, p. 61.
14 Idem, p. 63.
15 Idem, p. 64.
16 Idem, p. 64.
17 Idem, p. 60.
18 Heidegger, Unterwegs zur Sprache, Pfulligen, Neske.
19 Idem.
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21 Dante, De vulgari eloquentia, I, IX, 11.
22 Idem, I, XVII, 2.
23 Idem, I, XVIII, 7.
24 Dante, Il Convivio, I, X, 9.
25 A. Mussato, Tragoediae duae, Eclogae, Fragmenta, Epistulae, Lugduni Batavorum, Ed. Peter van der Aa, 1722, Epistula IV, col. 41 A.
26 Idem, Epistula XVIII, col. 50 E.
27 Idem, Epistula VII, col. 44 C.
28 L. Bruni, Epistularum libri VIII, Florence, 1741, vol. II, p. 108.
29 L. Bruni, Ad P.P. Histrum dialogus, in Prosatori italiani del Quattrocento, under the direction of E. Garin, Milan, 1952, p. 44.
30 L. Bruni, Humanistische philosophische Schriften, Leipzig, Ed. H. Baron, 1929, p. 128.
31 Idem, p. 129.
32 Idem, p. 18.
33 L. Bruni, Epistularum libri VIII, op. cit., p. 236.
34 L. Bruni, Oratio in funere Nannis Strozzae, in Stephan Baluzu miscellaneorum liber III, Paris, 1680, p. 321.
35 L. Bruni, Ad P.P. Histrum dialogus, op. cit., p. 44.
36 Idem, p. 44.
37 L. Bruni, Epistularum libri VIII, op. cit., p. 156.
38 L. Bruni, Ad P.P. Histrum dialogus, op. cit., p. 44.
39 L. Bruni, In nebulonem maledictum, G. Zippel Ed., Florence, 1980, p. 84.
40 L. Bruni, Humanistische philosophische Schriften, op. cit., p. 8.
41 L. Bruni, Ad P.P. Histrum dialogus, op. cit., p. 44.
42 Poliziano, Le Selve e la Strega, under the direction of I. Del Lungo, Florence, 1925, p. 220.
43 Guarino Veronese, Epistolario, Venice, Ed. R. Sabbadini, 1915-1919, vol. I, letter 148, p. 244.
44 Idem, letter 257, p. 402.
45 L. Valla, De Voluptate, M. Lorch, Bari, Adriatica, 1970, p. 96.
46 Idem, p. 96.
47 Idem, p. 97.
48 Idem, p. 14.
49 Idem, p. 14.
50 M. Nizolio, De veris principiis et vera ratione philosophandi contra pseudo philosophos libri IV, Rome, Ed. Q. Breen, 1965, vol. II, p. 189.
51 G. Pontano, I dialoghi, Florence, Ed. C. Privitera, 1943, p. 270.
