Susanna:
It is beyond me that artists can get away with living the most immoral lives without having it reflect on their art, but the moral foibles of thinkers like Heidegger are often taken to vitiate their philosophy.
To consider his theories of time, of authenticity, of how a work of art sets up a world of meaning and value (not to mention his critique of technology) to be falsified simply by his flirtation with Nazism is to betray one's ideological tendencies, not to mention to commit the rankest of ad hominem fallacies..
Dan
"For beauty is the beginning of terror that we are still able to bear, and why we love it so is because it so serenely disdains to destroy us." Rilke's First Elegy
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