Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Responses to Anti-Semitism

276 Pages·2017·2.24 MB·English

by  Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny (eds.)

Heidegger’s
Black Notebooks
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RESPONSES TO
ANTI-SEMITISM
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EDITED BY
Andrew J. Mitchell
and Peter Trawny
HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS

HEIDEGGER’S
BLACK NOTEBOOKS
R E SP O N SE S T O
A N T I - SE M I T I SM
EDITED BY
ANDREW J. MITCHELL
AND PETER TRAWNY
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Mitchell, Andrew J., 1970–, editor.
Title: Heidegger’s Black notebooks: responses to anti-Semitism / edited by
Andrew J. Mitchell and Peter Trawny.
Description: New York: Columbia University Press, 2017. | Includes bibliographical
references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017009182 | ISBN 9780231180443 (cloth: alk. paper) |
ISBN 9780231180450 (pbk.: alk. paper) | ISBN 9780231544382 (e-book)
Subjects: LCSH: Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976. Schwarze Hefte. |
Heidegger, Martin, 1889–1976—Notebooks, sketchbooks, etc. | Antisemitism.
Classification: LCC B3279.H48 S36234 2017 | DDC 193—dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017009182
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CONTENTS
Acknowledgments ix
List of Abbreviations xi
Editors’ Introduction xvii
1. THE UNIVERSAL AND ANNIHILATION:
HEIDEGGER’S BEING-HISTORICAL ANTI-SEMITISM
PETER TRAWNY
1
2. COSMOPOLITAN JEWS VS. JEWISH NOMADS:
SOURCES OF A TROPE IN HEIDEGGER’S
BLACK NOTEBOOKS
SANDER L. GILMAN
18
3. METAPHYSICAL ANTI-SEMITISM AND
WORLDLESSNESS: ON WORLD POORNESS,
WORLD FORMING, AND WORLD DESTROYING
EDUARDO MENDIETA
36
VI(cid:2)CONTENTS
4. “STERBEN SIE?”: THE PROBLEM OF DASEIN AND
“ANIMALS” . . . OF VARIOUS KINDS
BETTINA BERGO
52
5. INCEPTION, DOWNFALL, AND THE BROKEN WORLD:
HEIDEGGER ABOVE THE SEA OF FOG
RICHARD POLT
74
6. THE OTHER “JEWISH QUESTION”
MICHAEL MARDER
98
7. HEIDEGGER AND NATIONAL SOCIALISM:
HE MEANT WHAT HE SAID
MARTIN GESSMANN
114
8. “THE SUPREME WILL OF THE PEOPLE”:
WHAT DO HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS REVEAL?
HANS ULRICH GUMBRECHT
130
9. PROLEGOMENA TO ANY FUTURE DESTRUCTION
OF METAPHYSICS: HEIDEGGER AND THE
SCHWARZE HEFTE
PETER E. GORDON
136
CONTENTS(cid:2)VII
10. HEIDEGGER AFTER TRAWNY:
PHILOSOPHY OR WORLDVIEW?
TOM ROCKMORE
152
11. ANOTHER EISENMENGER? ON THE ALLEGED
ORIGINALITY OF HEIDEGGER’S ANTISEMITISM
ROBERT BERNASCONI
168
12. THE PERSISTENCE OF ONTOLOGICAL DIFFERENCE
SLAVOJ ŽIŽEK
186
Notes 201
Contributors 227
Index 231

ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
A
s the majority of the essays gathered here stem from the Emory
University conference “Heidegger’s ‘Black Notebooks’: Philoso-
phy, Politics, Anti-Semitism,” the editors would like to thank the
Emory Conference Center Subvention Fund, the Center for Faculty Devel-
opment and Excellence, the Office of the Provost, the Office of the Dean
of Emory College of Arts and Sciences, the Hightower Fund, the depart-
ments of philosophy, comparative literature, German studies, and French
and Italian, the Graduate Institute of the Liberal Arts, and the Tam Insti-
tute for Jewish Studies for their generous assistance in making the confer-
ence possible. The editors would also like to thank the graduate student
assistants to that conference, Katherine Davies, Lily Levy, and Christopher
Merwin, for their dedication and effort.
Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht’s article first appeared in German in the Frank-
furter Allgemeine Zeitung, April 25, 2015, https://blogs.faz.net/digital/2015/
04/25/herrlich-volklicher-wille-was-zeigt-sich-in-heideggers-schwarzen-
heften-838/.
Finally, at Columbia University Press, we are grateful to our editor
Wendy Lochner for her encouragement, support, and patience with this
project from the very beginning.