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Heidegger, Hermeneutics and History: Undermining Jeff Malpas’s Philosophy of Place
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Clarke, DA, Heidegger, Hermeneutics and History: Undermining Jeff Malpas's Philosophy of Place, Philosophia, 42, (3) pp. 571-591. ISSN 0048-3893 (2014) [Refereed Article]
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DOI: doi:10.1007/s11406-014-9534-x
Abstract
Most works about the philosophy of Martin Heidegger either disregard Heidegger’s attachment to National Socialism or assume the ‘minimalist’ view that his attachment was a brief political aberration of no consequence for his philosophy. This paper contends that the minimalist view is not only factually wrong but also that its assumption promotes methodological errors and poor philosophy. To assess this contention we examine two important texts from one of the more fertile fields in current philosophy: Jeff Malpas’s Heidegger’s Topology: Being, Place, World (2006) and Heidegger and the Thinking of Place (2012). Malpas claims that Heidegger’s rejection of National Socialism spurred, or was concomitant with, new directions in his philosophy. These claims are wrong. The paper concludes that any work about Heidegger’s philosophy must first acknowledge and understand his enduring attachment to National Socialism.
Item Details
Item Type: | Refereed Article |
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Keywords: | Heidegger, Malpas, National Socialism, place, topology |
Research Division: | Philosophy and Religious Studies |
Research Group: | Philosophy |
Research Field: | Philosophy not elsewhere classified |
Objective Division: | Expanding Knowledge |
Objective Group: | Expanding knowledge |
Objective Field: | Expanding knowledge in philosophy and religious studies |
UTAS Author: | Clarke, DA (Mr David Clarke) |
ID Code: | 119112 |
Year Published: | 2014 |
Deposited By: | School of Humanities |
Deposited On: | 2017-07-26 |
Last Modified: | 2017-09-01 |
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