Saturday, April 24, 2010

Heidegger and his student Jews: Löwith, Arendt and Brock

Japan had made Heidegger a remarkably lucrative offer: his remarks on things Asiatic never impuned LaoTzu or the Japanese nobility of Heidegger's acquaintance (for a peasant, he quite liked the nobility and the end of WWII found him sheltered by nobility.)

When Löwith made it to Japan, Heidegger could not have been more pleased with the outcome (perhaps spoiled by America declaring war on Germany.).  Werner Brock's introduction to English translations of some of Heidegger's essays from his days as a Nazi party member could not be more adequate.  Repeatedly he was well-served by his connection with Hannah Arendt beyond the sexual intimacy and romance.

He was after all, utterly duplicitious in his "handling" of everyone with whom he had dealings (if only he had learned Russian!)

compare Husserl's assistant 1923: Oscar Becker, later a devoted Nazi.

compare Husserl's statements on former assistant Edith Stein becomng a Catholic

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