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Record Nr.

UNINA9910806204203321

Autore

Radloff Bernhard

Titolo

Heidegger and the question of national socialism : disclosure and gestalt / / Bernhard Radloff

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Toronto ; ; Buffalo, : University of Toronto Press, c2007

ISBN

1-4426-8441-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (504 p.)

Collana

New studies in phenomenology and hermeneutics

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

National socialism and philosophy

Nazisme et philosophie

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [449]-475) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction; The Problem of Formlessness; Heidegger's Transformation of Gestalt Discourse; 1 The Challenge of the Planetary; 1.1 Earth and Site; 1.2 The Differentiation of Being and the Distinction of Sein and Seyn; 2 Rhetoric and the Public Sphere; 2.1 Rhetoric, Truth, and the Public Sphere; 2.2 Rhetoric in Sein und Zeit; 2.3 The Limits of Rhetoric: Philosophy, Weltanschauung, Rhetoric; 3 Heidegger and the Conservative Revolution; 3.1 Heidegger's Retrieval of Aristotle and the Relation of Volk and Science in the Rector's Address of 1933; 3.1.1 The Grounds of Science and 'The Self-Assertion of the German University'

3.1.2 Volk, or Volksein, as the Movement of a Way-of-Being; 3.2 Heidegger's Confrontation with the Discourses of National Socialism and the Conservative Revolution; 3.2.1 Volk and Race; 3.2.2 State, Volk, Earth; 3.2.3 State, Science, and Leadership; 3.2.4 Gestalt and Type; 3.2.5 Volk Embodied, Enacted; 3.2.6 Conclusion; 4 Volk, Work, and Historicity in Heidegger's Logik of 1934; 4.1 Volk as Movement of Withdrawal from Objectification; 4.2 Volk and Limit; 4.3 The Attunement of Volk to Being; 4.4 The Differentiated Identity of Volk; 4.5 Volk and Self-Responsibility; 5 An Introduction to Metaphysics and Heidegger's Critique of 'Intellectualism'

5.1 Overcoming Intellectualism; 5.1.1 Being and Becoming; 5.1.2 Being and Appearance; 5.1.3 Being and Thought; 5.1.4 Being and the Ought; 5.2 The Hermeneutic Situation: Siting the Question of Being; 5.2.1 Being as the 'Measure' of the Political5.2.2 Ousia; 5.2.3 Spirit and



Historicity; 5.2.4 The Founding of Being in the Polis: Techne; 5.3 Attunement and the Dis-attunement of Intellectualism; 5.3.1 Founding the Polis in the Homelessness of Being-toward-Death; 5.3.2 Polemos: Founding the Differentiation of Being; 5.3.3 Parmenides: Overcoming the Chorismos of Intellectualism; 6 Heidegger and Carl Schmitt: The Historicity of the Political

6.1 Schmitt's Critique of Liberalism; 6.2 The Historicity of the Political; 6.2.1 Volk; 6.2.2 Subjectivity and Representation6.2.3 State and Volk; 6.2.4 State and Society; 6.2.5 Polemos; 7 The Beiträge zur Philosophie and the Differentiation of Being; 7.1 Volk, Differentiation, Founding; 7.1.1 Volk and the Differentiation of Being; 7.1.2 The Experience of the Destitution and Sheltering Unconcealment of Beings; 7.1.3 The Presencing of Being (Wesung); 7.1.4 Founding; 7.2 The Artwork and the Site of the Political in the Beiträge; 7.2.1 Artwork and Community; 7.2.2 Truth as the Sheltering Unconcealment of Being in Beings

Sommario/riassunto

Adopting both a historical and phenomenological approach to the subject, this book is equally an examination of German conservative ideology, a critique of technological determinism, and a study of one of the most controversial philosophers of twentieth century.