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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
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  (Herbert Bayer’s design for a cinema. 1924–25. Image via Design Observer ) Literature: Martin Amis on Vladimir Nabokov William S. Burroughs : Charles Bukowski, William Burroughs, and the Computer Paul Auster: The Rumpus interview with Paul Auster Will Self : Will Selfs introduction to ...
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• Simon Critchley: Beckett, Literature, Philosophy

  
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  In 2001, The Necronautical Society interviewed British philosopher Simon Critchley for his opinions on, amongst other things, death and literature. There is a discussion of some of the major themes running through his book, Very Little... Almost Nothing: Death, Literature and Philosophy , and Critchley is a candid ...
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• Compounded addiction: Techno+Luxury in Berlin

  
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  I’m back after having spent 2 days in Berlin for…work. Wow, that was exciting! Kein leisure this time! The Ritz-Carlton was hosting the Herald Tribune conference of the luxury industry in Berlin. This conference has been traditionally hosted in London, Paris, Hong Kong, Tokyo. But this year Suzy Menkes, the ...
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• Letter: Cast Heidegger Out?

  
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  To the Editor:.
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• The Ister

  
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  I wrote last week about Martin Heidegger ’s return to the news, with Patricia Cohen’s report in the New York Times of a recent book that condemns the philosopher for his politics. Well, Heidegger recently made his way to the screen, too, with the film “The Ister,” by David Barison and Daniel Ross. It ...
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• Harman’s Object Disorientation: Anthropomorphism At Large

  
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  The Unfinished Harman Theory of Causation [click on picture for larger image] Another Derrida? Coincidently, what Harman thinks of Derrida: “Personally, I never had much time for Derrida, and see him instead as a self-indulgent wanker adrift in a sea of signs and boring high-culture collage.” The ...
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• The Heidegger Problem: Still With Us

  
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  (Photo: Brittanica) How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some as Germany’s greatest 20th-century philosopher, reaches his final resting place as a prolific, provincial Nazi hack? Overrated in his prime, bizarrely venerated by acolytes even now, ...
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• Disjecta: This weeks links

  
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  (Image from The Folio Society : Paul Austers New York Trilogy ) This week introduces Disjecta , a new weekly feature of  A Piece of Monologue . It aims to digest news across philosophy and the arts into manageable bitesize portions. And yes, this format is a blatant steal from 3:AM Magazine s superb ...
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• Putting Heidegger in the library’s grave of discarded lies

  
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  Monday’s New York Times has an interesting article about the forthcoming English edition of Emmanuel Faye’s book Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy in Light of the Unpublished Seminars of 1933–1935 .  In brief, Faye argues that Heidegger’s pro-Nazi views were not incidental, but were ...
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• An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers?

  
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  Patricia Cohen investigates in the New York Times : For decades the German philosopher Martin Heidegger has been the subject of passionate debate. His critique of Western thought and technology has penetrated deeply into architecture, psychology and literary theory and inspired some of the most influential ...
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• An Ethical Question: Should Journalists Be Allowed to Write About Philosophy?

  
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  Patricia Cohen’s article in the NY Times , “An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers?” is another in a collection of recent hatchet jobs in the press ( here and here ) condemning the work of Martin Heidegger for his connections to the Nazis. The occasion for these journalists ...
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• Can you Separate a Person from their Work?

  
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  That is a question perennially asked concerning Heidegger, the highly influential 20th century philosopher--some may say the most influential 20th century philosopher--and Nazi. Is it possible to separate his philosophy from his Nazism? It is something being addressed, once more, in Emmanuel Fayes book, who says ...
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  Somebody really doesnt like Heidegger. More at MeFi .
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• The Heidegger Question

  
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  In [a recent] essay titled Heil Heidegger! Carlin Romano, a critic for The Chronicle Review, called Heidegger a "Black Forest babbler" and fraud who was "overrated in his prime" and "bizarrely venerated by acolytes even now." As the NYT noted yesterday, the publication in English of a recent French book on the ...
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• Hiding from Heidegger

  
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  In today’s New York Times , Patricia Cohen reports on the controversy aroused several years ago in France, and now here, by the book “Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism Into Philosophy”: Drawing on new evidence, the author, Emmanuel Faye, argues fascist and racist ideas are so woven into the fabric of ...
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• An Ethical Question: Does a Nazi Deserve a Place Among Philosophers?

  
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  A soon-to-be published book has revived the long-running debate about whether the German philosopher Martin Heidegger can be separated from his philosophy.
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• Update on the Heidegger situation

  
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  As we noted here on foucaultblog last week, The Chronicle of Higher Education ran a slash and run piece by a guy called Carlin Romano on Heidegger. Romano’s stated goal was to ridicule and mock Heidegger:How many scholarly stakes in the heart will we need before Martin Heidegger (1889-1976), still regarded by some ...
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• Banal evil vs. radical evil; or, Arendt reappraised

  
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  I recently read an essay — in the New Yorker, I think, although I can’t remember for sure — that argues that on the basis of what we now know about Martin Heidegger, his anti-Semitism is so virulent that it renders him an inappropriate subject for serious study. Never having read any Heidegger, I’m agnostic ...
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• Heidegger’s Legacy

  
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  Today I was reading an article in The Chronicle of Higher Education about Heidegger and his Nazi sympathies. Well, maybe sympathy is too weak a term. The author of the article, Carlin Romano, sides with scholars who say Heidegger’s philosophy is derived from his Nazism, and concludes that Heidegger is too deeply ...
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• PoMo Conservative against Atheists

  
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  The PostModern Conservative has a post up against New Atheism. “…hit the new atheists hard with the Heideggerian criticism of the vulgarity of their materialism. They cowardly avoid the question of being, of why is there is being rather than nothing at all, or of even why scientists or other free persons ...
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