The Banality of Heidegger by Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Fort - 9780823275939

Fordham University Press

The Banality of HeideggerAuthor(s): Jean-Luc Nancy, Jeff Fort\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Fordham University Press, United States\nImprint: Fordham University Press\nISBN-13: 9780823275939, 978-0823275939\nSynopsis\nHeidegger and Nazism: Ever since the philosopher's public involvement in state politics in 1933, his name has necessarily been a part of this unsavory couple. After the publication in 2014 of the private Black Notebooks, it is now unambiguously part of another: Heidegger and anti-Semitism.\n What do we learn from analyzing the anti-Semitism of these private writings, together with its sources and grounds, not only for Heidegger's thought, but for the history of the West in which this thought is embedded? Jean-Luc Nancy poses these questions with the depth and rigor we would expect from him. In doing so, he does not go lightly on Heidegger, in whom he finds a philosophical and \""historial\"" anti-Semitism, outlining a clash of \""peoples\"" that must at all costs arrive at.