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Phenomenology is Wrong

March 26, 2015 by Michael Burgess 32 Comments

We should distinguish between two traditions within phenomenology: realist phenomenology and idealist phenomenology (fathered by Heidegger and Husserl respectively). The distinguishing feature is how they treat their ‘pre-bracketed’ and ‘post-bracketed’ states: in the realist case when we interpret (describe) the world we can bracket the truth of the claims epistemologically:  Continue Reading …

Not School: Heidegger’s “Being and Time” Discussion Series

July 27, 2014 by Mark Linsenmayer Leave a Comment

Martin Heidegger

Featuring Stevie LeValley, Nathan Goldman, Thomas Rickarby, Nathan Goldman, and Adrian Cho. Recorded July 6, 2014. This first discussion covered the Introduction, Part I. Listen to part two, Introduction, Part II. Recorded July 27, 2014. About 2 hrs. Listen to part three, on Division 1.1. Recorded Aug 3, 2014. About 2 hrs., 12 min. Listen to part four, on Division 1.2.  Continue Reading …

Traumatic Roots of Heidegger’s Fall into Nazism

June 25, 2014 by Wayne Schroeder 4 Comments

“We are all exceptional cases. We all want to appeal against something! Each of us insists on being innocent at all cost, even if he has to accuse the whole human race and heaven itself.”― Albert Camus, The Fall  What accounts for Heidegger's fall from grace into Nazism? This topic is touched on in the episode on Being and Time. Are we all vulnerable to the same or some  Continue Reading …

Dreyfus on Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and Artificial Intelligence

December 19, 2011 by Brad Younger 8 Comments

[Brad is a frequent contributor to our Facebook page, so we invited him to post on the blog - welcome him!] http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=99iTDUcBuRQ&feature=relmfu I found this to be an interesting video which relates to both the Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty episodes. In the video, Hubert Dreyfus discusses Heidegger, Merleau-Ponty, and the philosophical implications for  Continue Reading …

More Analytic vs. Continental: What is the “Situation of Reason”?

August 14, 2011 by Tom McDonald 4 Comments

The disciplinary identity of philosophy is in question. So says John McCumber in “Reshaping Reason”, where he makes a serious argument with evidence of trends pointing toward a sort of Hegelian synthesis in American philosophy to overcome the “Fantasy Island” of analytic thought and the “Subversive Struggle” of continental thought. "Fantasy Island" and "Subversive Struggle"  Continue Reading …

What’s at stake in the Heidegger/Nazism debate?

March 7, 2010 by Seth Paskin 5 Comments

So I have been established, or established myself, as the Heidegger 'guy' on this blog/podcast.  Why?  I read a bunch of his stuff in grad school, studied with one of his students (at the time a professor) in Germany, and wrote my Master's thesis on "Ereignis".  Wes just sent me a link to this review at The Time Higher Education of a new book by Emmanuel Faye on Heidegger  Continue Reading …

Seth Bait

December 14, 2009 by Wes Alwan 1 Comment

Brian Leiter skewers Chronical reporter Carlin Romano (yet again) for a piece that calls Heidegger a "provincial Nazi hack."  Continue Reading …

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