Fuchs, Christian. 2015. Martin Heidegger’s anti-Semitism: Philosophy of
technology and the media in the light of the Black Notebooks.
Implications for the reception of Heidegger in media and communication
studies. tripleC 13 (1): 55-78.
This article first and foremost asks a question to the academic public:
What are the implications of the anti-Semitism in Heidegger's recently
published Black Notebooks for the reception of his works in the study of
media, communication, technology, and the Internet?
http://www.triple-c.at/index.php/tripleC/article/view/650
Abstract:
In spring 2014, three volumes of the Schwarze Hefte (Black Notebooks),
Heidegger’s philosophical notebooks, were published in the German
edition of his collected works. They contain notes taken in the years
1931-1941 and have resulted in public debates about the role of
anti-Semitism in Heidegger’s thought.
This article asks: What are and should be the implications of the
publication of the Black Notebooks for the reception of Heidegger in the
study, theory, and philosophy of media, communication, and technology?
It discusses Theodor W. Adorno’s and Moishe Postone’s contributions to
the critical theory of anti-Semitism and applies these approaches for an
analysis of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks.
The analysis shows that the logic of modern technology plays an
important role in the Black Notebooks. The paper therefore also
re-visits some of Heidegger’s writings on technology in light of the
Black Notebooks. There is a logical link between the Black Notebooks'
anti-Semitism and the analysis of technology in Being and Time and The
Question Concerning Technology. The first publication provides the
missing link and grounding for the second and the third.
Heidegger’s works have had significant influence on studies of the
media, communication, and the Internet. Given the anti-Semitism in the
Black Notebooks, it is time that Heideggerians abandon Heidegger, and
instead focus on alternative traditions of thought. It is now also the
moment where scholars should consider stopping to eulogise and reference
Heidegger when theorising and analysing the media, communication,
culture, technology, digital media, and the Internet.
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