Heidegger and the Jews

The Black Notebooks

Donatella Di Cesare

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Polity Press
10 July 2018

Western philosophy, from c 1900 -; Jewish studies

"Philosophers have long struggled to reconcile Martin Heidegger's involvement in Nazism with his status as one of the greatest thinkers of the twentieth century. The recent publication of his Black Notebooks has reignited fierce debate on the subject. These thousand-odd pages of jotted observations profoundly challenge our image of the quiet philosopher's exile in the Black Forest, revealing the shocking extent of his anti-Semitism for the first time.

For much of the philosophical community, the Black Notebooks have been either used to discredit Heidegger or seen as a bibliographical detail irrelevant to his thought. Yet, in this new book, renowned philosopher Donatella Di Cesare argues that Heidegger's ""metaphysical anti-Semitism"" was a central part of his philosophical project. Within the context of the Nuremberg race laws, Heidegger felt compelled to define Jewishness and its relationship to his concept of Being. Di Cesare shows that Heidegger saw the Jews as the agents of a modernity that had disfigured the spirit of the West. In a deeply disturbing extrapolation, he presented the Holocaust as both a means for the purification of Being and the Jews' own ""self-destruction"": a process of death on an industrialized scale that was the logical conclusion of the acceleration in technology they themselves had brought about.

Situating Heidegger's anti-Semitism firmly within the context of his thought, this groundbreaking work will be essential reading for students and scholars of philosophy and history as well as the many readers interested in Heidegger's life, work, and legacy."

By: Donatella Di Cesare
Imprint: Polity Press
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 222mm, Width: 148mm, Spine: 18mm
Weight: 590g
ISBN: 9781509503827
ISBN 10: 150950382X
Pages: 288
Publication Date: 10 July 2018
Audience: Professional and scholarly , Undergraduate
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Active

Donatella Di Cesare is Professor of Theoretical Philosophy at the Sapienza University of Rome.

Reviews for Heidegger and the Jews: The Black Notebooks

Donatella Di Cesare's book restores philosophical balance to the debate on Heidegger and the Jews. It is a tour de force combining intellectual history and philosophical reflection on both the man and the thinker that goes well beyond the all-too-routine alternative of rabid condemnation or doggedly blinkered defense. Babette Babich, Fordham University