Heidegger and the Conservative Revolution

Heidegger’s ‘Rector’s Address’ has drawn perhaps inordinate attention in recent years, particularly as evidence of Heidegger’s ‘involvement’ in National Socialism – which it undoubtedly offers. The interpretations of Ott, Rockmore, Philipse, Köchler, and Fritsche, among others, are typical in the se...

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Published inHeidegger and the Question of National Socialism p. 88
Main Author Radloff, Bernhard
Format Book Chapter
LanguageEnglish
Published Canada University of Toronto Press 24.11.2007
Subjects
Abstract entities
Authoritarianism
Behavioral sciences
Communities
Concept of being
Conservatism
Continental philosophy
Dasein
Existentialism
Fascism
Heideggerianism
Historical methodology
Historicity
History
Human societies
Metaphilosophy
Metaphysics
Nazism
Nominalism
Ontological essence
Ontological properties
Ontology
Philosophy
Political change
Political ideologies
Political philosophy
Political processes
Political revolutions
Political science
Politics
Social groups
Socialism
Sociology
Western philosophy
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Summary:Heidegger’s ‘Rector’s Address’ has drawn perhaps inordinate attention in recent years, particularly as evidence of Heidegger’s ‘involvement’ in National Socialism – which it undoubtedly offers. The interpretations of Ott, Rockmore, Philipse, Köchler, and Fritsche, among others, are typical in the sense that they implicate Heidegger in the totalitarian designs of National Socialism, even if they allow that Heidegger’s version of Nazism was not necessarily racist, and that it was, in fact, unorthodox in its entire tendency.¹ Yet the philosophical grounds of Heidegger’s invocation of the fundamental interrelation of Volk, work service, and science in the Address remain insufficiently clarified by these
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