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Heidegger's silence

Author: Berel Lang
Publisher: Ithaca, NY : Cornell University Press, 1996.
Edition/Format:   Book : EnglishView all editions and formats
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In What Is Called Thinking? Martin Heidegger wrote, "Man speaks by being silent." Berel Lang shows in this penetrating book how Heidegger's own silence on the "Jewish Question" - how (or if) the Jews were to live among the nations - constituted a deliberate and direct "speaking." The significance of the Jewish Question which gained currency in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was radically altered by the  Read more...
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Named Person: Martin Heidegger; Martin Heidegger; Martin Heidegger
Document Type: Book
All Authors / Contributors: Berel Lang
ISBN: 080143310X 9780801433108
OCLC Number: 34699484
Description: xi, 129 p. ; 22 cm.
Contents: 1. From the Jewish Question to the "Jewish Question": A History of Silence --
2. The "Jewish Question" in Heidegger's Post-Holocaust --
3. Heidegger When the Jewish Question Still Was --
4. Inside and Outside Heidegger's Antisemitism --
5. Heidegger and the Very Thought of Philosophy --
Appendix. A Conversation about Heidegger with Eduard Baumgarten / David Luban.
Responsibility: Berel Lang.

Abstract:

In What Is Called Thinking? Martin Heidegger wrote, "Man speaks by being silent." Berel Lang shows in this penetrating book how Heidegger's own silence on the "Jewish Question" - how (or if) the Jews were to live among the nations - constituted a deliberate and direct "speaking." The significance of the Jewish Question which gained currency in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries was radically altered by the Holocaust. Lang argues, however, that Heidegger's post-Holocaust silence had its grounds in his earlier silence on the Jewish Question - itself based on the conceptual and historical role Heidegger ascribed to the Volk, in particular to the German Volk. Heidegger's enduring silence, Lang concludes, was thus more than an expression of prejudice or of public rhetoric. As an element of his philosophical position, it remains a necessary consideration in understanding and assessing Heidegger as thinker. In this way, Heidegger's silence still speaks.

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