Heidegger, the Pólis , the Political and Gelassenheit

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ID8410256
AuthorsTracy B Strong (0000-0001-5417-6253, University of Southampton, corresponding author)
Year2016
Volume47
Issue2
Pages157-173
Publication date2016-04-02
Peer ReviewedYes
Open AccessNo
TypeARTICLE
VenueJournal of the British Society for Phenomenology (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 0007-1773 • E-ISSN: 2332-0486
PublisherInforma UK Limited (PUBLISHER • GB)
DOI10.1080/00071773.2016.1145888
OpenAlexW2397712756
LanguageEN
References cited21

What is Heidegger's understanding of the political? The recent publication of the so-called “Black Notebooks” has once again brought to a polemical forefront the question of the importance of Heidegger's Nazism for his philosophical thought. Yet in the swirling controversy, the question of Heidegger's understanding of the political – that is, of a particular form of relations between human beings – has tended to be obscured by his apparent endorsement of the Nazi regime. I make here the distinction made easily in French between “le politique” – the political – and “la politique” – politics – and argue that Heidegger has a serious understanding of “the political” that is not necessarily coincident with his appreciation of politics – although he may have either thought or hoped it was

Epistemology · Nazism · Political science · Politics · Hannah Arendt's Political Philosophy · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism

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