Stephen Dozeman
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first heard Jan 2020
last heard Apr 2020
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Interestingly, many of his frustrations were with Nazism itself, but he places it next to liberal democracy and Soviet communism, which he thought were all embodiments of the same underlying logic.
What was the driving force behind all these political paradigms as he saw it and why was he so frustrated with them?
You write about Heidegger's desire to find the, quote, inner truth of the Nazi movement and how this at times put him at odds with Nazi orthodoxy since he didn't buy into the more crude biological racism.
While this interest in abstract truths does exempt him from certain accusations of orthodoxy
biological racism, it also leads him to make some equally disturbing remarks regarding war annihilation and the Jews that aren't what we might expect from an enthusiastic Nazi, but instead demonstrate a more detached callousness towards certain historical events.
Can you kind of unpack his approach here, how it differed from more orthodox Nazism, but how at the same time
it doesn't just exempt him, it leads him to a sort of detached and disengaged callousness towards the events of his time.
So after working through his thinking in the 1930s, you start trying to critically engage with Heidegger's politics and see what, if anything, can be salvaged.
One area you find some ambivalence about is Heidegger's critique of the Enlightenment subject, since he has this very productive critique of the isolated, rational person.
But you find his response, while gesturing in a more intersocial direction, has limits.
You write, quote, Despite Heidegger's communal impulse, the moment of vision is an essentially secret and incommunicable decision on which authentic relations...
with others are subsequently grounded.
Can you unpack this critique of his a bit and maybe what we can salvage from it versus what we ought to discard?
Another area you find Heidegger simultaneously interesting and helpful, but in a somewhat limited way, is in his attempt to define the we, how a we emerges and is defined.
What are the stumbling blocks Heidegger runs into with this theme and what can be salvaged for a more social vision of political engagement?
Towards the end of the book, you try to salvage a Heideggerian political philosophy by supplementing it with Hannah Arendt's outline of the political sphere, which is a bit more sophisticated and helpful.
In particular, you look at her distinctions between political work and political action.
So can you unpack this distinction and how it leads to a vision of political engagement?
that has certain similarities and parallels with Heidegger, but also some very fundamental and maybe productive differences.
One of the limits you find in Heidegger is his continued interest with the politician as a poet or a maker.
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