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2009-11-14 Home Front: Culture Wars

Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers?

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Posted by tipper 2009-11-14 00:00|| || Front Page|| [3 views ] Top

#1 Does a Commie?

Posted by ed 2009-11-13 19:42|| 2009-11-13 19:42|| Front Page Top

#2 Werner Heisenberg comes to mind also.

Posted by JohnQC 2009-11-13 21:31|| 2009-11-13 21:31|| Front Page Top

#3 Back in my days as a mathematician, I studied Teichmüller spaces. I found out later that Teichmüller was the founder of Deutche Mathematik, the first Judenrein mathematics journal. I still studied the subject, a major portion of Riemann surface theory, but I held my nose when thinking of the man.

Posted by Eric Jablow">Eric Jablow 2009-11-13 22:16|| 2009-11-13 22:16|| Front Page Top

#4 The nazis were quite negative on Western culture in general. Not surprising that the Left has found common ground.

Posted by gromky 2009-11-14 01:13|| 2009-11-14 01:13|| Front Page Top

#5 1+1=2 your race or political bent does NOT compute.

Posted by Redneck Jim 2009-11-14 01:42|| 2009-11-14 01:42|| Front Page Top

#6 Paul Schmidt AKA Paul Carrel, the German military historian who wrote four outstandinng histories of the Wehrmacht during WWII was a Colonel in the SS and held a position in von Ribbentrop's Foreign Ministry.

Do those facts invalidate the work he did or alter historical facts?

No it does not.

Do these facts color his work?

I am certain they do, but I am also know that Carrell limited his writing to he war and he used his extensive contacts within the German military to put together these fine texts.

See a more extensive commentary here

Posted by badanov 2009-11-14 07:35|| http://www.freefirezone.org]">[http://www.freefirezone.org] 2009-11-14 07:35|| Front Page Top

#7 The whole idea that Heidegger was some kind of hardcore Nazi is mostly garbage. Like most intellectuals of his time, he was given two choices in Nazi Germany: play ball or loose his position [at the very least].

He played ball. Most people do.

Heidegger's Field Theory of Being and his attempts to understand how language and thought interact with one another are extremely important contributions to Western thought. Time and Being is an important (if extremely difficult to read) book. That's how it is, Nazi or not.

Posted by Secret Master 2009-11-14 23:39|| 2009-11-14 23:39|| Front Page Top

#8 "I speak of Heidegger - I speak of monstrosity! But I do not speak of the nationalist thing!"

Jacques Derrida - exegesis of the word "monstrosity" as a "showing"

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