Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Responses to Anti-Semitism PDF
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Heidegger’s Black Notebooks z RESPONSES TO ANTI-SEMITISM z EDITED BY Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS R E SP O N SE S T O A N T I - SE M I T I SM EDITED BY ANDREW J. MITCHELL AND PETER TRAWNY Columbia University Press New York Columbia University Press Publishers Since 1893 New York Chichester, West Sussex cup.columbia.edu Copyright © 2017 Columbia University Press All rights reserved Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Names: Mitchell, Andrew J., 1970–, editor. Title: Heidegger’s Black notebooks: responses to anti-Semitism / edited by Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny. Description: New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2017009182 | ISBN 9780231180443 (cloth: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231180450 (pbk.: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231544382 (e-book) Subjects: LCSH: Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. Schwarze Hefte. | Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976—Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. | Antisemitism. Classification: LCC B3279.H48 S36234 2017 | DDC 193—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017009182 Columbia University Press books are printed on permanent and durable acid-free paper. Printed in the United States of America Cover design: Lisa Hamm CONTENTS Acknowledgments ix List of Abbreviations xi Editors’ Introduction xvii 1. THE UNIVERSAL AND ANNIHILATION: HEIDEGGER’S BEING-HISTORICAL ANTI-SEMITISM PETER TRAWNY 1 2. COSMOPOLITAN JEWS VS. JEWISH NOMADS: SOURCES OF A TROPE IN HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS SANDER L. GILMAN 18 3. METAPHYSICAL ANTI-SEMITISM AND WORLDLESSNESS: ON WORLD POORNESS, WORLD FORMING, AND WORLD DESTROYING EDUARDO MENDIETA 36 VI(cid:2)CONTENTS 4. “STERBEN SIE?”: THE PROBLEM OF DASEIN AND “ANIMALS” . . . OF VARIOUS KINDS BETTINA BERGO 52 5. INCEPTION, DOWNFALL, AND THE BROKEN WORLD: HEIDEGGER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG RICHARD POLT 74 6. THE OTHER “JEWISH QUESTION” MICHAEL MARDER 98 7. HEIDEGGER AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM: HE MEANT WHAT HE SAID MARTIN GESSMANN 114 8. “THE SUPREME WILL OF THE PEOPLE”: WHAT DO HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS REVEAL? HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT 130 9. PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE DESTRUCTION OF METAPHYSICS: HEIDEGGER AND THE SCHWARZE HEFTE PETER E. GORDON 136 CONTENTS(cid:2)VII 10. HEIDEGGER AFTER TRAWNY: PHILOSOPHY OR WORLDVIEW? TOM ROCKMORE 152 11. ANOTHER EISENMENGER? ON THE ALLEGED ORIGINALITY OF HEIDEGGER’S ANTISEMITISM ROBERT BERNASCONI 168 12. THE PERSISTENCE OF ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK 186 Notes 201 Contributors 227 Index 231 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS A s the majority of the essays gathered here stem from the Emory University conference “Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’: Philoso- phy, Politics, Anti-Semitism,” the editors would like to thank the Emory Conference Center Subvention Fund, the Center for Faculty Devel- opment and Excellence, the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Dean of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the Hightower Fund, the depart- ments of philosophy, comparative literature, German studies, and French and Italian, the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, and the Tam Insti- tute for Jewish Studies for their generous assistance in making the confer- ence possible. The editors would also like to thank the graduate student assistants to that conference, Katherine Davies, Lily Levy, and Christopher Merwin, for their dedication and effort. Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s article first appeared in German in the Frank- furter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 25, 2015, https://blogs.faz.net/digital/2015/ 04/25/herrlich-volklicher-wille-was-zeigt-sich-in-heideggers-schwarzen- heften-838/. Finally, at Columbia University Press, we are grateful to our editor Wendy Lochner for her encouragement, support, and patience with this project from the very beginning.
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