Nazism, philosophy, and academic accountability: The real controversy surrounding Emmanuel Faye's Heidegger
✍ Scribed by James Gilbert-Walsh
- Publisher
- John Wiley and Sons
- Year
- 2011
- Tongue
- English
- Weight
- 74 KB
- Volume
- 47
- Category
- Article
- ISSN
- 0022-5061
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✦ Synopsis
Abstract
In this essay review, I argue that Emmanuel Faye's Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy is, as a work of scholarship, a disappointment: Though Faye claims to demonstrate important connections between Heidegger's National Socialist commitments and his philosophical work, Faye offers the reader close, careful analysis of neither. In short, the book fails to deliver on its promise. But I also argue that the wave of attention Faye's book has attracted since its English translation appeared is symptomatic of a broad set of problems plaguing contemporary Anglophone philosophy. © 2011 Wiley Periodicals, Inc.