http://www.anti-rev.org/textes/Joris89a/
I just found and read the above review article by Pierre Joris on
Heidegger. It more or less parallels my argument with Heidegger as a
colonialist decisional hermeneutics and when you then find yourself in
arguments with philosophers the stature of Derrida who seem willingly
ignorant of how Heidegger lays out his basic problems you can begin to
think yourself a little delusional. (I don't have a doctorate in
philosophy, so by what right do I speak?)
Ha, this has made my day. I am not delusional, after all is said and
done. To say Heidegger provides a colonialist decisional hermeneutics is
also to say that his concepts fit in with fascism if one is to take
fascism seriously as the conditions which lay out most of post World War
2 politics, following the analysis of fascism provided by the historian,
Daniel Guerin.
[A quote from the conclusion to the article]
It seems clear from the foregoing that essential Heideggerrian concepts
as first developed in Being and Time lend themselves without ambiguity,
and in Heidegger's own practical thinking to implementation in the
context of a fascist university structure. This is not to dismiss
Heidegger's thought : there is no doubt that in certain essential
aspects it addresses some of the most fundamental questions we are faced
with at this end of the century.
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