“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 …
I’m declaring a moratorium on Nazi examples in moral philosophy
OK, I was listening to the latest episode of Philosophy Bites, where Nigel "Daddy Warbucks" Warburton is interviewing Sean Kelly about Homer and Philosophy. I have documented elsewhere my love and admiration of Warburton and the podcast, so this is not in any way to be construed as a criticism. But a couple of things pushed my buttons. At the beginning, David Edmunds says Continue Reading …
What’s at stake in the Heidegger/Nazism debate?
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 …