Heidegger and the Metaphysics of Globalisation

1998

Since Victor Farias published his book detailing Heidegger's involvement in National Socialism (1987), a wave of books have appeared which develop this theme. One might expect that this trend of Heidegger criticism would produce such dark revelations about his fascist tendencies as to dampen all enthusiasm for his thought. Yet these works have had the reverse effect of stimulating new interest in his philosophy, even to the point of spawning "apologetics,"

2005

Reviews, Historical Geography Volume 38 (2010): 145-183. ©2010, Historical Geog- raphy Specialty Group, Association of American Geographers.

European Journal of Philosophy 19/4, 2011

İnsan & Toplum Dergisi (The Journal of Human & Society), 2013

Varlık ve Zaman adlı başyapıtıyla felsefede yeni bir çığır açmış, böylelikle varlığa yönelik ontolojik ve epistemolojik tartışmaları da beraberinde getirmiştir. Heidegger'in felsefesinin yanı sıra politika anlayışı da elli yılı aşkın süredir tartışılmakta ve tartışılmaya da devam etmektedir. 1933 yılında Freiburg Üniversitesi'ne rektör seçilmesi, bu tartışmaların başlangıç noktası sayılır. Rektörlüğü ve Führer'e yapılan bilgi hizmeti onun, antisemitist, Nazi yanlısı ve Nasyonal Sosyalizm'in ideologu olarak görülmesine neden olmuştur. Ayrıca onun eserlerinden hareketle-özellikle Varlık ve Zaman ve bazen de Metafiziğe Giriş-Heidegger'i Nasyonal Sosyalizm'in epistemolojik inşasını gerçekleştirmek için çaba gösteren ve bu politik duruşun ontolojik kodlarını kurgulamakla itham edenler de vardır. Heidegger, bu saldırıların bir kısmını hayatının son zamanlarında Der Spiegel dergisine verdiği röportajda karşılamaya çalışmışsa da o, hâlâ birçok meslektaşı ve öğrencileri tarafından Hitler yanlısı bir filozof olarak görülmektedir. Bu çalışmada, Heidegger'in Nazizm'le olan ilişkisi eleştirel boyutta tartışılacak ve Nazi sonrası Almanya'sında Heidegger'in Nasyonal Sosyalizm'e ilişkin söylemlerine yön bulmaya çalışılacaktır.

2021

Characterizing Heidegger, the statesman, is a project which does not appear to be too uncommon among academic literature. Perhaps it was Leo Strauss who had prepared for this. After all, he is most likely to be the one responsible for popularizing the question of Martin Heidegger's commitment to the political, outright. However, and despite the availability of the literature, it is the succinctness of Michael Allen Gillespie's Heidegger's Aristotelian National Socialism which proves itself to be quite useful in answering Heidegger's relationship to politics. What becomes apparent through Gillespie's article is that a Straussian preoccupation with natural rights (as it appears, for example, in his lecture course on Friedrich Nietzsche's Thus Spoke Zarathustra) is exactly that which prevents an understanding of Heidegger's politics. However, once the priority of rights is abandoned altogether (and along with it, the responsibility of a governance to secure those rights), then a fresh intellectual space opens up. In that space, novel forms of governance are allowed to fill the void. In order to open up that space for us here and now, and in order to understand exactly how far outside of rights Heidegger's thinking is situated, we will consider Heidegger's apparent Aristotelian National Socialism, together with Gillespie in this article.

Comparative Civilizations Review, 2009

The German defeat in World War I and the subsequent imposition of the Treaty of Versailles led to a profound sense of national humiliation as well as to a complete economic collapse. Yet accompanying these "external" factors was a deeper crisis of values, in which a number of long-standing traditions and basic cultural assumptions were rejected but never adequately replaced. Alarmed in the face of rapid change and the loss of fundamental cultural presuppositions, interwar German conservative thinkers began to extol (in theoretical terms) the values of the traditional and familiar, concentrating on themes such as nationalism and "rootedness" in the German land. Some of these thinkers put forth a Kriegsideologie (ideology of war) in which military virtues were offered as the antidote to a decadent Europe in the throes of spiritual decline. This paper will discuss the "conservative revolution" in 20th century German thought, specifically as a reaction to t...

On 1 May 1933, Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), perhaps the most influential philosopher and thinker of the 20th Century, joined the Nazi Party. Soon after joining die Partei, Heidegger, membership pin-number 312589, was elected to the position of rector at the University of Freiburg. With the assumption of the position of rector of Freiburg, Heidegger was given the opportunity to implement and implant the ideals of his most famous and influential work, Being and Time, which proposes to analyze and concretely explicate the question of being, directly into the burgeoning Nazi Party and its ideals.