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A few of them are by Heidegger himself, but as printed in newspapers. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0806530790/ereignis"><img height="110" width="69" src="imgs/0806530790.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <a id="Farias"></a> <b>Heidegger and Nazism</b>. Victor Farias, edited, with a Foreword, by Joseph Margolis and Tom Rockmore, translated from the French by Paul Burrell, German material translated by Gabriel R. Ricci, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1987. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0877226407/ereignis"><img height="90" width="59" src="imgs/0877226407.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"/></a> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger and The Holocaust</b>. Edited by Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg, New Jersey, Humanities Press, 1996.<br> Contains: </p> <ul> <li>Introduction</li> <li>Heidegger's Silence and the Jewish Question, Berel Lang</li> <li>The Cries of Others and Heidegger's Ear: Remarks on the Agriculture Remark, Robert John Sheffler Manning</li> <li>Heidegger's Silent Inhumanity: 'To think the Nobility of Being...', Wilhelm S. Wurzer</li> <li>Strategies of Deception: The Composition of Heidegger's Silence, George Leaman</li> <li>Heidegger <i>silentio</i>, William Vaughan</li> <li>Todtnauberg, Otto Pöggeler</li> <li>Heidegger and Holocaust Revisionism, Tom Rockmore</li> <li>Heidegger's 'Silence' about the Holocaust: An Attempt at a Reconstruction, Rainer Alisch</li> <li>Self-Destruction, Henri Cr´tella</li> <li>Heidegger's Essentials: Appropriations and Expropriations, James R. Watson</li> <li>Comrade Heidegger, Joseph Margolis</li> <li>Heidegger at the Nuremberg Trials: The 'Letter on Humanism' Revisited, Hans Seigfried</li> <li>Heidegger, Planetary Technics, and the Holocaust, Alan Milchman and Alan Rosenberg</li> <li>'In Its Essence the Same Thing', Elisabeth de Fontenay</li> <li>The Death of God at Auschwitz?, Michael E. Zimmerman</li> </ul> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0391040154/ereignis"><img height="90" width="59" src="imgs/0391040154.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger and The Ideology of War</b>. Domenico Losurdo, translated by Marella and Jon Morris, Amherst, NY, Humanity Press, 2001. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1573929107/ereignis/"><img height=91 width="59" src="imgs/1573929107.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></a> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger and "The Jews"</b>. Jean Francois Lyotard, translated by Andreas Michel and Mark S. Roberts, Minneapolis, University of Minnesota Press, 1990. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0816618577/ereignis"><img height="90" width="58" src="imgs/0816618577.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger and the Nazis</b>. Jeff Collins, New York, Totem Books, 2000. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1840461306/ereignis"><img height="90" width="57" src="imgs/1840461306.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <a id="HeideggerArtandPolitics"></a> <b>Heidegger, Art and Politics</b>. Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, translated by Chris Turner, Oxford, Basil Blackwell, 1990. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> Review: <a href="http://www.humboldt.edu/~essays/schrorev13.html">Steven Schroeder </a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/063117155X/ereignis/"><img width="72" height="110" src="imgs/063117155X.jpg" alt="book"></a> </p> <p> <a id="HeideggerCase"></a> <b>The Heidegger Case</b> On Philosophy and Politics. Edited by Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis, Philadelphia, Temple University Press, 1992.<br> Contains: </p> <ul> <li>Heidegger s Apology: Biography as Philosophy and Ideology, Theodore Kisiel</li> <li>Ontological Aestheticism: Heidegger, Junger, and National Socialism, Michael E. Zimmerman</li> <li>Biographical Bases for Heidegger s 'Mentality of Disunity', Hugo Ott</li> <li>Heidegger, Nietzsche, and Politics, Otto Pöggeler</li> <li>Heidegger and Hitler s War, Domenico Losurdo</li> <li>Heidegger and the Greeks, Rainer Marten</li> <li>Heidegger and <i>Praxis</i>, Jacques Taminiaux </li> <li>The History of Being and Political Revolution: Reflections on a Posthumous Work of Heidegger, Nicolas Tertulian</li> <li>Philosophy, Politics-and the 'New' Questions for Hegel, for Heidegger, and for Phantasy, Hans-Christian Lucas</li> <li>A Comment on Heidegger s Comment on Nietzsche s Alleged Comment on Hegel's Comment on the Power of Negativity, Leszek Kolakowski</li> <li>Heidegger s Scandal: Thinking and the Essence of the Victim, John D. Caputo</li> <li>Heidegger and Politics: Some Lessons, Fred Dallmayr</li> <li>Riveted to a Monstrous Site: On Heidegger s <i>Beiträge zur Philosophie</i>, Reiner Schürmann</li> <li>Foreword to the Spanish Edition, <i>Heidegger and Nazism</i>, Victor Farías</li> <li>The Purloined Letter, Dominique Janicaud</li> <li>The Political Incompetence of Philosophy, Hans-Georg Gadamer</li> <li>Heidegger s French Connection and the Emperor s New Clothes, Tom Rockmore</li> <li>Discarding and Recovering Heidegger, Joseph Margolis</li> </ul> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0877229074/ereignis"><img height="90" width="60" src="http://images.amazon.com/images/P/0877229074.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <a id="HeideggerControversy"></a> <b>The Heidegger Controversy</b>. Edited by Richard Wolin, Cambridge, The MIT Press, 1993.<br /> Contains: </p> <ul> <li><a id="SelfAssertionoftheGermanUniversity2">The Self-Assertion of the German University</a> (1933), Martin Heidegger</li> <li>Political Texts <a href="gesamt.html#16">(GA 16)</a>, 1933-1934, Martin Heidegger, translated by William S. Lewis. <ul> <li>Schlageter, May 26, 1933</li> <li>Labor Service and the University, June 20, 1933</li> <li>The University and the New Reich, June 30, 1933</li> <li>German Students, November 3, 1933</li> <li>German Men and Women, November 10, 1933</li> <li>Declaration of Support for Adolf Hitler and the National Socialist State, November 11, 1933</li> <li>A Word from the University, January 6, 1934</li> <li>The Call to the Labor Service, January 23, 1934</li> <li>National Socialist Education, January 22, 1934</li> </ul> </li> <li>Letter to the Rector of Freiburg University, November 4, 1945, Martin Heidegger</li> <li>Overcoming Metaphysics (1936-1946), Martin Heidegger</li> <li>"Only a God Can Save Us": <i>Der Spiegel</i>'s Interview with Martin Heidegger</li> <li>My Last Meeting with Heidegger in Rome, 1936, Karl Löwith</li> <li>Letter to the Freiburg University Denazification Committee, December 22, 1945, Karl Jaspers</li> <li>An Exchange of Letters, Herbert Marcuse and Martin Heidegger</li> <li>The Political Implications of Heidegger's Existentialism, Karl Löwith</li> <li>Martin Heidegger: On the publication of the Lectures of 1935, Jürgen Habermas</li> <li>Heidegger's Political Self-Understanding, Otto Pöggeler</li> <li>Heidegger's Idea of Truth, Ernst Tugendhat</li> <li>Back to History: An Interview, Pierre Bourdieu</li> <li>French Heidegger Wars, Richard Wolin</li> </ul> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0262731010/ereignis"><img height="90" width="58" src="imgs/0262731010.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger, Philosophy, Nazism</b>. Julian Young, Cambridge, U.K., Cambridge University Press, 1997. <br> 'Since 1945, and particularly since the facts of the "Heidegger case" became known in 1987, an enormous number of words have been devoted to establishing, not only Heidegger's involvement with Nazism, but also that his philosophy is irredeemably discredited thereby. This book, while not denying the depth or seriousness of Heidegger's political involvement (on the contrary, new aspects of it are disclosed), challenges this tide of opinion, arguing that the philosophy itself is not compromised in any of its phases, and that acceptance of it is fully consistent with a deep commitment to liberal democracy.' </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0521582768/ereignis"> <img height="90" width="59" src="imgs/0521582768.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger's <i>Being and Time</i> and the Possibility of Political Philosophy</b>. Mark Blitz, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1981. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0801413206/ereignis"> <img width="70" height="110" src="imgs/0801413206.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger's Children</b>. Richard Wolin, Princeton University Press, 2001. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> Review: <a href="http://www.independent.co.uk/story.jsp?story=114802">Independent</a> <a href="http://www.firstthings.com/ftissues/ft0201/articles/linker.html">First Things</a> <a href="http://slash.autonomedia.org/article.pl?sid=01/12/17/1453212">James Ryerson</a> <a href="http://www.claremont.org/writings/crb/fall2002/blitzintel.html">Mark Blitz</a> <br> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691070199/ereignis"> <img src="imgs/0691070199.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <a id="ConfrontationwithModernity"></a> <b>Heidegger's Confrontation with Modernity</b>. <a href="http://www.tulane.edu/~michaelz/">Michael E. Zimmerman</a>, Bloomington, Indiana University Press, 1990. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0253205581/ereignis"><img src="imgs/0253205581.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <a id="HeideggersCrisis"></a> <b>Heidegger's Crisis, Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany</b>. Hans Sluga, Cambridge, Mass., Harvard University Press, 1993. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> This book is reviewed <a href="http://www.wavefront.com/~contra_m/cm/reviews/cm13_rev_heidegger.html">here</a> and <a href="http://commhum.mccneb.edu/PHILOS/review.htm">here</a>. <br> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0674387120/ereignis"><img src="imgs/0674387120.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger's <i>Polemos</i></b>. Gregory Fried, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2000. </p> <p> In this book polemos, via Heidegger's interpretation of Heraclitus, is understood as confrontation, and as such, as something necessary to useful questioning and thus philosophy. Here, discussing the revolutionary nature of history, as a helix circling and progressing, polemos is linked to <i>Ereignis</i>. </p> <blockquote><p> [W]hat Dasein has become accustomed to is not a realm of being but a mode of interpreting Being as a being, thereby lapsing into nihilism and the oblivion of Being. Moreover, the revolution is not an act accomplished by the will of the human subject or exercised as a dominion over history. The revolution occurs in the appropriating event of the turning between Dasein and Being: "<i>The other inception</i> demands the leap into the gaping middle of the turning of the appropriating event, in order to prepare the There in respect to its grounding--knowingly, questioningly, and in the style of preparation". The Ereignis "founds" the belonging-together of Dasein and Being; it "appropriates" them to one annother in the Kehre as a polemos that grants both Being and Dasein a meaningful history open to interpretative confrontation. </p></blockquote> <blockquote><p> P. 132 </p></blockquote> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300080387/ereignis"><img src="imgs/0300080387.01._SL110_SCTZZZZZZZ_.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger's Political Thinking</b>. James F. Ward, Amherst, University of Massachusetts Press, 1995. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0870239708/ereignis"><img src="imgs/0870239708.01.TZZZZZZZ.gif" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>Heidegger's Silence</b>. Berel Lang, Ithaca, Cornell University Press, 1996. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/080143310X/ereignis"><img width="72" height="130" src="imgs/080143310X.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <a id="Faye"></a> <b>Heidegger</b>. Emmanuel Faye, New Haven, Yale University Press, 2009. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> Reviews: <a href="http://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24316/?id=19228">Peter E. Gordon</a> <a href="http://www.h-net.org/reviews/showpdf.php?id=11565">Robin Celikates</a> <a href="http://www.claremont.org/publications/crb/id.1701/article_detail.asp">Michael B. Smith</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2009/11/09/books/09philosophy.html?pagewanted=all">Patricia Cohen</a> <a href="http://chronicle.com/article/Heil-Heidegger-/48806/">Carlin Romano</a> <a href="http://www.nytimes.com/2010/05/09/books/review/Kirsch-t.html?src=un&feedurl=http%3A%2F%2Fjson8.nytimes.com%2Fpages%2Fbooks%2Freview%2Findex.jsonp">Adam Kirsch</a> <a href="http://www.spiked-online.com/index.php/site/reviewofbooks_article/7762/">Tim Black</a> <a href="http://journals.uvic.ca/index.php/pir/article/download/914/473">Michael Maidan </a><br> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0300120869 /ereignis"><img width="76" height="110" src="imgs/0300120869.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <a id="Ott"></a> <b>Martin Heidegger: A Political Life</b>. Hugo Ott, translated by Allen Blunden, New York, Basic Books, 1993. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> Reviews: <a href="http://contra-mundum.org/cm/reviews/pl_Heidegger.pdf">Peter J. Leithart</a> <a href="http://www.lrb.co.uk/v11/n08/jp-stern/heil-heidegger">J.P. Stern</a><br> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0465028985/ereignis/"><img width="73" height="110" src="imgs/0465028985.jpg" alt="book"></a> </p> <p> <b>Martin Heidegger and National Socialism: Questions and Answers</b>. Edited by Gunther Neske and Emil Kettering. Translated by Lisa Harries, New York, Paragon House, 1990. <br> Contains: </p> <ul> <li><a name="SelfAssertionoftheGermanUniversity">The Self-Assertion of the German University</a>, also in <a href="#SelfAssertionoftheGermanUniversity2">The Heidegger Controversy</a></li> <li>The Rectorate 1933/34: Facts and Thoughts</li> <li>The <a name="DerSpiegel"/><i>Der Spiegel</i></a> Interview</li> <li>Martin Heidegger in Conversation with Richard Wisser</li> </ul> <p> <i>Martin Heidegger in Conversation</i> was also translated by B. Srinivasa Murthy and published by Arnold-Heinemann Publishers, India, in 1977. </p> <p> <a name="polemos"></a> In <i>The Rectorate</i>, written shortly after the war, Heidegger explains his motives and perspective on his time as Rector and his Rectorial Address. In particular he explains his interpretation of Heraclitus, fragment 53. </p> <blockquote><p> The attitude of reflection and questioning is oriented toward "battle." But what does <i>battle</i> mean in the address? If what is essential in this reflection returns to the Greek À¹ÃÄ®¼· and that means to »®¸µ¹±, then one may conjecture that the essence of battle is also not conceived arbitrarily. Battle is thought in the sense of Heraclitus, fragment 53. But to understand this often-cited and equally often misunderstood saying, two things should first be taken into consideration, as I have said often enough in my lectures and seminars: <blockquote><p> 1. The word ÀÌ»µ¼¿Â, with which the fragment begins, does not mean "war" but what is meant by the word µÀ¹Ã, which Heraclitus uses in the same sense. But that means "strife"--not strife as discord and squabbling and mere disagreement and certainly not as the use of violence and beating down the opponent but as confrontation in which the essence of those who confront one another exposes itself to the other and thus shows itself and comes to appearance, and that means in a Greek way: into what is unconcealed and true. Because battle is reciprocal recognition that exposes itself to what is essential, the address, which orients this questioning and reflecting toward "battle," continually speaks of "being exposed." That what is said here lies in the direction of the Heraclitan saying is very clearly shown by the saying itself. One must only take a second point into consideration. </p> <p> 2. Not only must we not think ÀÌ»µ¼¿Â as war and, furthermore, not use the supposedly Heraclitean proposition "War is the father of all things" to proclaim war and combat as the highest principle of all being and to philosophically justify the warlike. Above all and at the same time, we must take into consideration what Heraclicus' saying--cited in the usual manner--falsifies everything, because saying in its entirety is thus suppressed and with it what is essential. The complete saying goes: "Although confrontation sows all things, it is also (and above all) of all things that which is highest that which preserves, and this is because it lets some show themselves as gods, the others, however, as humans, because it lets some step into the open as bondsmen, but the others as free beings." </p></blockquote> <p> The essence of ÀÌ»µ¼¿Â lie in ´µ¹º½Í½±¹, to show, and in À¿¹µÖÅ, to produce [<i>her-stellen</i>], as the Greeks say, make-it-stand-out [<i>hervorstellen</i>] in open view. This is the essence of <i>battle</i> as it is philosophically thought, and what is said in the address is only thought philosophically. </p></blockquote> <blockquote><p> P. 20-21 </p></blockquote> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1557783101/ereignis"><img width="80" height="120" src="imgs/1557783101.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b><a href="http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft6q2nb3wh/">On Heidegger's Nazism and Philosophy</a></b>. Tom Rockmore, Berkeley, University of California, Press, 1992. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0520077113/ereignis"><img src="imgs/0520077113.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>The Politics of Being</b>. Richard Wolin, New York, Columbia University Press, 1990. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0231073151/ereignis"><img src="imgs/0231073151.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <p> <b>The Shadow of That Thought</b>. Dominique Janicaud, translated by Michael Gendre, Evanston, Northwestern University Press, 1996. </p> <p> A good recap of how <i>l'affaire Heidegger</i> played out in France, the major players, and their positions, along with incisive commentary. Well written and well translated. </p> <p> In reviewing Lacoue-Labarthe's contribution, Janicaud points to <i>Ereignis</i>: </p> <blockquote><p> In front of the Holocaust itself, do moral condemnations suffice? Heidegger's silence only repeats and emphasizes the unthinkable character of that "event," infernal and irrecoverable <i>Ereignis</i>. </p></blockquote> <blockquote><p> P. 90 </p></blockquote> <p class="booktrailer"> <a href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0810112159/ereignis/"><img width="70" height="110" src="imgs/0810112159.jpg" alt="book"></a> </p> <p> <b>Timely Meditations</b>. <a href="http://www.clas.ufl.edu/CLAS/Departments/Polisci/thiel.html">Leslie Paul Thiele</a>, Princeton, Princeton Unversity Press, 1995. </p> <p class="booktrailer"> <A href="http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0691043361/ereignis"><img src="imgs/0691043361.01.TZZZZZZZ.jpg" alt="book"></A> </p> <hr> <p> Send additions, corrections or whatever to that_pete (at) yahoo.com or <a href="http://www.beyng.com/msgform.html">mail a msg from this form</a>. Don't forget to put your comments in context (what page, what your going on about, etc.)! 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