Assessing the significance of Heidegger's Black Notebooks

The publication of Heidegger's Black Notebooks (Schwarze Hefte) has provoked a storm of controversy. Much of this has centred on the pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic comments the volumes contain. But these aspects of the Notebooks are perhaps the least surprising and important. This essay offers a sum...

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Published in:Geographica Helvetica 2018-03, Vol.73 (1), p.109-114
Main Author: Malpas, Jeff
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Antisemitism
Evaluation
Heidegger, Martin
Nazi era
Nazi groups
Philosophers
Works
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Summary:The publication of Heidegger's Black Notebooks (Schwarze Hefte) has provoked a storm of controversy. Much of this has centred on the pro-Nazi and anti-Semitic comments the volumes contain. But these aspects of the Notebooks are perhaps the least surprising and important. This essay offers a summary overview of the issues to which the Notebooks give rise, at the same time as it also aims to provide a preliminary assessment of their overall significance, especially in relation to what they show about the nature and development of Heidegger's thinking from the early 1930s to the late 1940s.
ISSN:2194-8798
0016-7312
2194-8798
DOI:10.5194/gh-73-109-2018