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The History of Beyng
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The History of Beyng belongs to a series of Martin Heidegger's reflections from the 1930s that concern how to think about being not merely as a series of occurrences, but as essentially historical or fundamentally as an event. It builds directly on an earlier work in the series, Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event), and provides a pathway to the later text,
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Together, these texts are important for their meditations on the oblivion and abandonment of being, politics, and race, and for their incisive critique of power, force, and violence. Originally published in 1998, this English translation opens new avenues for understanding the trajectory of Heidegger's thinking during this crucial time.
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“Heidegger is completely into the cult of not thinking in this manuscript. He’s hiding behind the essence of being and appropriates the clearing as he makes man, strife, earth, and God mystical grounds resolved by political feelings.
The Fascists and MAGA manifesto: ‘stop thinking and follow me’ as the leader shouts his absurdities. Heidegger loves his race-based pseudo-politics and sociology and interprets the world around him as the destiny that he was waiting for and hides behind Dasein’s authenticity. Russia bad, Germany good, he preaches. Race explains all. The machinations of power through community leads to the Russians and that is bad, and national socialism race-based certainty good, for him.
A footnote told me that a future addition of this manuscript would have Heidegger saying: “One would have to ask what are the grounds that peculiarly predetermine the Jewish community for planetary criminality,” does one ever really have to ask that question? I don’t think so. A Nazi would, and MAGA does.
The manuscript, I use that description because this is not a book as such as it seems to be random notes loosely held together through his rubric of “Being and Time,” some Nietzsche thought, Nazi ideology, and mysticism of sorts, and his misdirection of ‘being’ as fundamental for meaning.
Heidegger creates a convenient fiction (the French would say facon-de-parler) as he confounds the history of the concept of self with the history of the self’s realization of itself and pretends that the authentic-self is real and knowable through following the powerful ruler within a race-based world. Heidegger is repugnant and seems to love his Hitler while not saying his name.
Oddly, I come from the perspective of having “Being and Time” be one of my all-time favorite books. Heidegger’s repugnancy is plain to see in this manuscript.”
About Martin Heidegger
Heidegger’s contribution to the growth and development of National Socialism was immense. In this small anthology, Dr. Runes endeavors to point to the utter confusion Heidegger created by drawing, for political and social application of his own existentialism and metaphysics, upon the decadent and repulsive brutalization of Hitlerism.
Martin Heidegger was a philosopher most known for his contributions to German phenomenological and existential thought. Heidegger was born in rural Messkirch in 1889 to Catholic parents. While studying philosophy and mathematics at Albert-Ludwig University in Freiburg, Heidegger became the assistant for the philosopher Edmund Husserl. Influenced by Husserl, Kierkegaard, and Nietzsche, Heidegger wrote extensively on the quality of Being, including his Opus
. He served as professor of philosophy at Albert-Ludwig University and taught there during the war. In 1933, Heidegger joined the National Socialist German Worker’s (or Nazi) Party and expressed his support for Hitler in several articles and speeches. After the war, his support for the Nazi party came under attack, and he was tried as a sympathizer. He was able to return to Albert Ludwig University, however, and taught there until he retired. Heidegger continued to lecture until his death in 1973.
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