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Confronting Heidegger New Heidegger Research Series Editors: Gregory Fried, Professor of Philosophy, Boston College, USA Richard Polt, Professor of Philosophy, Xavier University, USA The New Heidegger Research series promotes informed and critical dialogue that breaks new philosophical ground by taking into account the full range of Heidegger’s thought, as well as the enduring questions raised by his work. Titles in the Series: After Heidegger? Edited by Gregory Fried and Richard Polt Correspondence 1949–1975 Martin Heidegger, Ernst Jünger, translated by Timothy Quinn Existential Medicine Edited by Kevin Aho Heidegger and Jewish Thought Edited by Micha Brumlik and Elad Lapidot Heidegger and the Environment Casey Rentmeester Heidegger and the Global Age Edited by Antonio Cerella and Louiza Odysseos Heidegger Becoming Phenomenological: Preferring Dilthey to Husserl, 1916–1925 Robert C. Scharff Heidegger in Russia and Eastern Europe Edited by Jeff Love Heidegger’s Gods: An Ecofeminist Perspective Susanne Claxton Making Sense of Heidegger Thomas Sheehan Proto-Phenomenology and the Nature of Language Lawrence J. Hatab Heidegger in the Islamicate World Edited by Kata Moser, Urs Gösken and Josh Michael Hayes Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties Richard Polt Contexts of Suffering: A Heideggerian Approach to Psychopathology Kevin Aho Heidegger’s Phenomenology of Perception: An Introduction, Volume I David Kleinberg-Levin Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy Edited by Gregory Fried Confronting Heidegger A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy Edited by Gregory Fried Published by Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd 6 Tinworth Street, London, SE11 5AL, UK www.rowmaninternational.com Rowman & Littlefield International Ltd. is an affiliate of Rowman & Littlefield 4501 Forbes Boulevard, Suite 200, Lanham, Maryland 20706, USA With additional offices in Boulder, New York, Toronto (Canada), and Plymouth (UK) www.rowman.com Copyright © 2020 by Gregory Fried Copyright in individual chapters is held by the respective chapter authors. 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Contents Acknowledgments ix Abbreviations and a Note on the Text xi Introduction: Confronting Heidegger: A Critical Dialogue on Politics and Philosophy xvii Gregory Fried 1 A Letter to Emmanuel Faye 1 Gregory Fried 2 From Polemos to the Extermination of the Enemy: Response to the Open Letter of Gregory Fried 53 Emmanuel Faye 3 Wherewith to Draw Us to the Left and Right: On Reading Heidegger in the New Millennium 77 Matthew Sharpe 4 Reflecting with the Heidegger Case 111 William H. F. Altman 5 Un-wesen: Tarrying with the Negative in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks 121 Richard Polt 6 The Imperative Mode of Heidegger’s Thought, National Socialism, and Anti-Semitism 145 Dieter Thomä vii viii Contents 7 Philosophy or Messianism? 179 Sidonie Kellerer 8 A Second Letter to Emmanuel Faye 209 Gregory Fried 9 Against Heidegger’s “Essential Right”: The Humanity Principle 237 Emmanuel Faye Index 277 About the Contributors 283 Acknowledgments An edited volume of essays by multiple authors is necessarily a collabora- tive project, one whose complexity is amplified by differences in language and interpretive stances. For this reason, I am especially grateful to the con- tributors to this book, who have endeavored to make it a dialogue, within the limitations of the form, and who have been admirably forbearing with the interrogative editorial process I employed. Anyone reading this book will notice that Emmanuel Faye and I disagree strongly on matters that can evoke intense reactions, and so I thank him especially for the confidence he has placed in me to direct this project. Sarah Campbell, Frankie Mace, and Rebecca Anastasi, editors at Row- man & Littlefield International, have demonstrated great skill and patience in assisting with the intricacies of bringing this volume to print. Alex Mon- teverdi and Zachary Willcut, research assistants at Boston College, did yeo- man’s work in preparing the manuscript for submission to the press. Richard Polt, my friend, coeditor of New Heidegger Research, and long-time col- laborator in Heidegger scholarship, has been a tireless and generous adviser in matters ranging from planning the volume to translating passages in Hei- degger to critical commentary on my own contribution. Vicente Muñoz-Reja provided valuable assistance in reviewing the page proofs and devising the index. Finally, I must thank Philosophy Today, which published the original exchange with Emmanuel Faye, and its editor, Peg Birmingham, who granted permission for republication, without which this volume would not have been possible. ix
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