Friendship and Politics: Heidegger's Failing

Political Theory

Volumn 20, Issue 3, 1992, Pages 399-423

  Dostal, Robert ^a  

^a BRYN MAWR COLLEGE   (United States)

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EID: 84970649175     PISSN: 00905917     EISSN: 15527476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/0090591792020003002     Document Type: Article

References (17)

1. Fred Dallmayr, “Heidegger's Ontology of Freedom,” 129.
2. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Heideggers Wege (T ‘bingen: J.C.B. Mohr, 1983), 25. This essay, “Martin Heidegger ‘75 Jahre” from 1964, can also be found in Kleine Schriften 3.
3. “Brief ‘ber Humanismus,” in Wegmarken, Gesamtausgabe, vol. 9, edited by Friedrich W. Wilhelm von Hermann (Frankfurt: Klostermann, 1976), 353-54, 357-58; in English translation by Frank Capuzzi and J. Glenn Gray in Basic Writings, edited by David Krell (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), 232, 235-36- hereafter cited as BH and LH.
4. Metaphysische Anfangsgr ‘nde der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz, Gesamtausgabe, vol. 26, edited by Klaus Held (Frankfurt: Klosterman, 1978), 199; in English translation by Michael Heim, The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), 157; hereafter cited as MALAL and MFL, respectively.
5. “Woher nimmt das Denken sein Mass?,” BH, 362; LH, 240.
6. Werner Marx provides the most notable attempt to develop a Heideggerian ethic in the two volumes: Gibt es auf Erden ein Mass! (Hamburg: Meiner, 1983) and Ethos und Lebenswelt: Mitleidenkonnen als Mass (Hamburg: Meiner, 1986).
7. In the lectures, see, for example, GdP, 394; BP, 278; MALAL, 174-76, 240-46; MFL, 138-40,186-90; GdM, 307. See also Vom Wesen des Grundes, 157; in English, 87. Later in the Beitr ‘ge, the tone is different in this regard. Heidegger writes that Being and Time “still gives the appearance” (steht. noch im Anchein) of subjectivism, anthropologism, and individualism. See §172 at 195, Beitr ‘ge zur Philosophie, Gesamtausgabe, vol. 65, edited by Friedrich-Wilhelm von Hermann (Frankfurt: Klosterman, 1989).
8. Note, for example, in Being and Time the criticism of approaches to the question of intersubjectivity through empathy (SZ, 124-25; BT, 162). He is criticizing the phenomenological attempts by Edmund Husserl, Max Scheler, and Edith Stein to deal with this question.
9. At the time of these lectures, L ‘with was writing his Habilitation in close contact with Heidegger. In the Habilitation L ‘with criticizes Heidegger from the standpoint of a philosophy of dialogue. Neither Heidegger nor L ‘with discuss or mention Martin Buber. L ‘with discusses primarily Ebner, Gogarth, and Scheler. His Habilitation was published in 1928: Das Individuum in der Rolle des Mitmenschen (M ‘nchen: Drei Masken, 1928). See Michael Theunissen's discussion of L ‘with's critique in Der Andere (Berlin: DeGruyter, 1981), esp. chap. 6. Heidegger in the Basic Problems lectures responds that
10. Was Ist Metaphysik?, in Wegmarken, 112; in English translation in Basic Writings, 103.
11. See the discussion of the basic constitution of historicality in just these terms §74 of Being and Time.
12. Heidegger pays great attention to this choral ode in the 1930s and 1940s. His most extensive treatments can be found in Gesamtausgabe vol. 40 {Einf ‘hrung in die Metaphysik), 153-73, lectures summer semester 1935, (hereafter referred to as EM) and in English translation by Ralph Manheim, An Introduction to Metaphysics (Garden City, NY: Doubleday, 1961), 123-38 (hereafter referred to as IM) and vol. 53 (Der Ister), 69-121, lectures summer semester 1942.
13. Der Ister, 97-108.
14. Translation by Terence Irwin (Indianapolis: Hackett, 1985). See also Aristotle's comment in Magna M or alia 1197ff., Ross translation, The Works of Aristotle, vol. 9 (Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1915), that “cleverness and the clever man are not wisdom and the wise man; the wise man, however, is clever, wherefore also cleverness co-operates in a way with wisdom.
15. For the often cited reference to the “inner truth and greatness” of the Nazi movement, see EM,208; IM,166.
16. This can be found in any number of Heidegger's lectures in the 1920s and 1930s. See Especially Malal, 196-201 (MFL, 154-58) and the Beitr ‘ge, 83,135,193,280-81.
17. See earlier note 15. In the 1934/35 lectures H ‘lderlins Hymnen “Germanien “ und “Der Rhein” (Gesamtausgabe, vol. 39,181-86) the poet is considered a demigod (Halbgott).