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Heidegger, Hermeneutics and History: Undermining Jeff Malpas’s Philosophy of Place
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posted on 2023-05-19, 08:24 authored by Clarke, DAMost 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.
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Publication title
PhilosophiaVolume
42Pagination
571-591ISSN
0048-3893Department/School
School of HumanitiesPublisher
Bar Ilan UnivPlace of publication
Dept Philosophy, Ramat Gan, IsraelRights statement
Copyright Springer Science+Business Media Dordrecht 2014Repository Status
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