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Reading Heidegger's Black Notebooks 1931-1941

Ingo Farin and Jeff Malpas

Abstract

The publication of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, especially those from 1931-1941,has provoked enormous controversy and this volume aims to bring together a range of responses by well-known figures in contemporary Heidegger scholarship. Encompassing a range of different perspectives, the essays deal with the interpretive and stylistic issues raised by the Notebooks; the role the Notebooks play in relation to other works and to Heidegger’s thinking as a whole; the question of Heidegger’s anti-Semitism, as well as his broader relation to Judaism and Christianity; the political and historical dimen ... More

Keywords: Martin Heidegger, Anti-Semitism, Nazism, Technology, Politics, Philosophy, Modernity, History of Philosophy

Bibliographic Information

Print publication date: 2016 Print ISBN-13: 9780262034012
Published to MIT Press Scholarship Online: January 2017 DOI:10.7551/mitpress/9780262034012.001.0001

Authors

Affiliations are at time of print publication.

Ingo Farin, editor

Jeff Malpas, editor

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Front Matter

Title Pages

Acknowledgments

Introduction

I The Reading of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

1 On the Philosophical Reading of Heidegger: Situating the Black Notebooks

Jeff Malpas

2 Heidegger’s Notebooks: A Smoking Gun?

Fred Dallmayr

3 Reading Heidegger’s Black Notebooks

Steven Crowell

4 The King Is Dead: Martin Heidegger after the Black Notebooks

Gregory Fried

5 Heidegger’s Black Night: The Nachlass and Its Wirkungsgeschichte

Babette Babich

II The Black Notebooks and other Works

6 The Role of Martin Heidegger’s Notebooks within the Context of His Oeuvre

Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann

7 The Critique and Rethinking of Being and Time in the First Black Notebooks

Jean Grondin

8 The Existence of the Black Notebooks in the Background

Laurence Paul Hemming

9 The Black Notebooks and Heidegger’s Writings on the Event (1936–1942)

Daniela Vallega-Neu

III Metaphysics, Anti-Semitism, and Christianity

10 “Heidegger” and the Jews

Michael Fagenblat

11 Heidegger and the Shoah

Peter Trawny

12 Heidegger’s Metaphysical Anti-Semitism

Donatella Di Cesare

13 Metaphysics, Christianity, and the “Death of God” in Heidegger’s Black Notebooks (1931–1941)

Holger Zaborowski

IV Philosophy, Politics, and Technology

14 Nostalgia, Spite, and the Truth of Being

Karsten Harries

15 On Relevant Events, Then and Now

Tracy B. Strong

16 Heidegger and National Socialism: Great Hopes, Despair, and Resilience

Thomas Rohkrämer

17 Philosophy, Science, and Politics in the Black Notebooks

Andrew Bowie

18 Thinking the Oblivion of Thinking: The Unfolding of Machenschaft and Rechnung in the Time of the Black Notebooks

Nancy A. Weston

19 The Black Notebooks in Their Historical and Political Context

Ingo Farin

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Bibliography

Contributors

Index