The political ontology of Martin Heidegger
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The political ontology of Martin Heidegger
Stanford University Press, 1991
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L'ontologie politique de Martin Heidegger
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Translation of: L'ontologie politique de Martin Heidegger, published by Éditions de Minuit, 1988
Includes index
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ISBN 9780804716987
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Martin Heidegger's overt alliance with the Nazis and the specific relation between this alliance and his philosophical thought - the degree to which his concepts are linked to a thoroughly disreputable set of political beliefs - have been the topic of a storm of recent debate. Written ten years before this debate, this study by France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist is both a precursor of that debate and an analysis of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse. Though Heidegger is aware of and acknowledges the legitimacy of purely philosophical issues (in his references to canonic authors, traditional problems, and respect for academic taboos), Bourdieu points out that the complexity and abstraction of Heidegger's philosophical discourse stems from its situation in the cultural field, where two social and intellentual dimensions - political thought and academic thought - intersect. Bourdieu concludes by suggesting that Heidegger should not be considered as a Nazi ideologist, that there is no place in Heidegger's philosophical ideas for a racist conception of the human being.
Rather, he sees Heidegger's thought as a structural equivalent in the field of philosophy of the 'conservative revolution', of which nazism is but one manifestation.<
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: skewed thinking
- 1. Pure philosophy and the Zeitgeist
- 2. The philosophical field and the space of possibilities
- 3. A 'conservative revolution' in philosophy
- 4. Censorship and the imposition of form
- 5. Internal readings and the respect of form
- 6. Self-interpretation and the evolution of the system
- Notes
- Index.
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: pbk ISBN 9780804726900
Description
Martin Heidegger's overt alliance with the Nazis and the specific relation between this alliance and his philosophical thought-the degree to which his concepts are linked to a thoroughly disreputable set of political beliefs-have been the topic of a storm of recent debate. Written ten years before this debate, this study by France's leading sociologist and cultural theorist is both a precursor of that debate and an analysis of the institutional mechanisms involved in the production of philosophical discourse.
Though Heidegger is aware of and acknowledges the legitimacy of purely philosophical issues (in his references to canonic authors, traditional problems, and respect for academic taboos), Bourdieu points out that the complexity and abstraction of Heidegger's philosophical discourse stems from its situation in the cultural field, where two social and intellectual dimensions-political thought and academic thought-intersect.
Bourdieu concludes by suggesting that Heidegger should not be considered as a Nazi ideologist, that there is no place in Heidegger's philosophical ideas for a racist conception of the human being. Rather, he sees Heidegger's thought as a structural equivalent in the field of philosophy of the "conservative revolution," of which Nazism is but one manifestation.
Table of Contents
- Preface
- Introduction: skewed thinking
- 1. Pure philosophy and the Zeitgeist
- 2. The philosophical field and the space of possibilities
- 3. A 'conservative revolution' in philosophy
- 4. Censorship and the imposition of form
- 5. Internal readings and the respect of form
- 6. Self-interpretation and the evolution of the system
- Notes
- Index.
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