HEIDEGGER AND THE HEIDEGGER CONTROVERSY
I The Heidegger affair
II Heidegger’s life
III Early and Middle Heidegger: Being and Time, Freiburg Rectoral Address
IV “Overcoming Metaphysics”: Clearing things up, or getting off the
hook?
Being and Time (Sein und Zeit) (1927)
“
The Self-Assertion of the German University” (1933)
(pun: Selbstbehauptung=self-assertion / Selbstenthaptung=self-decapitation)
“Letter on Humanism” (1947)
“‘Only a God Can Save Us’: Interview with Der Spiegel” (publ.
1966)
Vergangenheitsbewältigung = coming to terms with / coping with / mastering
the past
poststructuralism / deconstruction / Foucault / Derrida
Theodor Adorno, “The Meaning of ‘Working Through the Past'”
______________, The Jargon of Authenticity
collaboration (with the Nazi regime)
University of Freiburg / Black Forest
Hannah Arendt
Gleichschaltung (Nazis’ policy of forced coordination of society)
Dasein = “being in a situation” (literally, “being there”)
thrownness / Angst
forgetting of being
disclosure / resoluteness (decision)
Wissenschaft = “science,” all organized knowledge--natural,
social,
cultural (humanities)
Gefolgschaft = following, obedience
technology / enframing