Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Responses to Anti-Semitism

Published by Columbia University Press 2017

Heidegger's Black Notebooks

Responses to Anti-Semitism

Edited by: Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny

https://doi.org/10.7312/mitc18044

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This book brings together an international group of scholars to discuss the ramifications of Heidegger's Black Notebooks for philosophy and the humanities. In contrast to both those who seek to exonerate Heidegger and those who simply condemn him, they urge careful reading and rereading of his work to turn Heideggerian thought against itself.

Author / Editor information

Andrew J. Mitchell is professor of philosophy at Emory University. He is the author of Heidegger Among the Sculptors: Body, Space, and the Art of Dwelling (2010) and The Fourfold: Reading the Late Heidegger (2015) and the translator of Martin Heidegger’s Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: Insight Into That Which Is and Basic Principles of Thinking (2012) and On Hegel's Philosophy of Right: The 1934-35 Seminar and Interpretive Essays (2014). He was the organizer of the first U.S. conference on the Notebooks from which many of these essays are drawn.

Peter Trawny teaches at the Bergische University Wuppertal, where he is the director of the Martin-Heidegger-Institute. He is the editor of several volumes of the Martin-Heidegger-Gesamtausgabe, including the Black Notebooks. His English-language publications include Freedom to Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy (2015) and Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy (2015), translated by Andrew J. Mitchell.

Reviews

Catherine Malabou, Kingston University and U.C. Irvine:
There can be no last word on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks and the incomprehensible and unjustifiable positions of one of the greatest philosophers of the twentieth century. Only a collective, plurivocal approach can help us read what is illegible. Avoiding the extremes of justification and excommunication, the authors in this collection succeed in this painful but necessary task.

Gil Anidjar, Columbia University:
An impressive collection that genuinely enriches the conversation on Heidegger’s politics and philosophy.

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
Acknowledgments Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	ix
List of Abbreviations Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xi
Editors’ Introduction Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	xvii
1. THE UNIVERSAL AND ANNIHILATION: HEIDEGGER’S BEING-HISTORICAL ANTI-SEMITISM Peter Trawny Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	1
2. COSMOPOLITAN JEWS VS. JEWISH NOMADS: SOURCES OF A TROPE IN HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS Sander L. Gilman Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	18
3. METAPHYSICAL ANTI-SEMITISM AND WORLDLESSNESS: ON WORLD POORNESS, WORLD FORMING, AND WORLD DESTROYING Eduardo Mendieta Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	36
4. “STERBEN SIE?”: THE PROBLEM OF DASEIN AND “ANIMALS” . . . OF VARIOUS KINDS Bettina Bergo Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	52
5. INCEPTION, DOWNFALL, AND THE BROKEN WORLD: HEIDEGGER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG Richard Polt Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	74
6. THE OTHER “JEWISH QUESTION” Michael Marder Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	98
7. HEIDEGGER AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM: HE MEANT WHAT HE SAID Martin Gessmann Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	114
8. “THE SUPREME WILL OF THE PEOPLE”: WHAT DO HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS REVEAL? Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	130
9. PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE DESTRUCTION OF METAPHYSICS: HEIDEGGER AND THE SCHWARZE HEFTE Peter E. Gordon Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	136
10. HEIDEGGER AFTER TRAWNY: PHILOSOPHY OR WORLDVIEW? Tom Rockmore Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	152
11. ANOTHER EISENMENGER? ON THE ALLEGED ORIGINALITY OF HEIDEGGER’S ANTISEMITISM Robert Bernasconi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	168
12. THE PERSISTENCE OF ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE Slavoj Žižek Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	186
Notes Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	201
Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	227
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	231

Language: English
Publisher: Columbia University Press
Audience: Professional and scholarly;

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Published: September 24, 2018
ISBN: 9780231544382