Via Stuart Elden, Peter E. Gordon in The New York Review of Books on Heidegger’s Black Notebooks.
Month: September 2014
Syllabi
For those interested, here is my syllabus (I’m updating it with my prolegomena lectures for each class) for my grad course this semester on Foucault, Derrida, and punishment/death penalties, as well as my upper level course in phenomenology.
Jeff Malpas events this week
The Department of Philosophy welcomes Henrietta Harvey Distinguished LecturerJeff Malpas for these series of events:
Mon 29 Sept 7-8:30 pm: “Poetry, Language, Place,” Henrietta Harvey Distinguished Public Lecture in room A-1046, with reception to follow.
Thurs 2 October 4-5:30 pm: “The Place of Thinking,” in room A-1046, a colloquium to members of the department, retirees, grad students, and so on.
Fri 3 October 4:30 to 6:30pm: Jockey Club discussion group, downtown at Peter Easton Pub, with informal reception to follow.
via Department of Philosophy | Welcome to the Department of Philosophy.
Jonathan P Allen comments on Matthew Wilson’s ‘Continuous connectivity’ article | Society and Space – Environment and Planning D
Agamben and Politics: A Critical Introduction // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame
Adam Kotsko reviews (somewhat critically) Agamben and Politics: A Critical Introduction // Reviews // Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews // University of Notre Dame.
Lefebvre’s beach: Gordillo on Toward an Architecture of Enjoyment | Society and Space – Environment and Planning D
Rupal Oza – India’s relations with Israel and Palestine: Tracing a tectonic shift | Society and Space – Environment and Planning D
Interview with Walaa Alqaisiya and Lisa Bhungalia by Mat Coleman and Mary Thomas | Society and Space – Environment and Planning D
Heidegger’s Black Notebooks reviewed in the LARB
A good review by Gregory Fried of the first three volumes of Heidegger’s Black Notesbooks: The King Is Dead: Heidegger’s “Black Notebooks” | The Los Angeles Review of Books. Unlike others I’ve linked to, this one does a good job of charting Heidegger’s overall ontology and radical historicism before contextualizing the specific volumes and from there the notorious descriptions of a “worldless” Jewry. One note: Fried follows Peter Trawny, the editor of the German edition of the Notebooks, in describing Heidegger’s anti-semitism as “rooted in the history of Being” (cited in the review). I’m a bit clearer now about what Trawny means–it was opaque to me before this–namely that Heidegger didn’t view the Jews as a racial question, but in terms of “uprooting…all beings from Being as its world-historical ‘task'” (cited in the review). But Heidegger’s problem is precisely that the Jews are not a historically situated people, that is, a nation, as the Germans are par excellence. Whatever refusals on his part, this is still a racial category, not least since one can’t write on Jewry in the 1930s–as can be seen even in the arguments over Zionism within various Jewish communities–without the shadows of a fully racialized biopolitics that overtook modernity, well described by Arendt in Origins of Totalitarianism, and which Heidegger seems here and in already published places to replicate point by point. As rootless and denationalized, they are thus without history and one sees this in so much dehumanizing moves of various nationalisms. That Heidegger wanted to say it wasn’t a racial category speaks more to his megalomania that Fried describes–I don’t like the Jews, but I have a better theory than regular Germans–than somehow leaping out of the historical discourses that founded his thinking on Germanness and so on.
PHILOSOPHY IN A TIME OF ERROR 