Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Bourdieu, Heidegger, History

Serendipitously, my last two points come together in my discovery of this--



-- a book written by Bourdieu on Heidegger, published before Heidegger's Nazi involvement was revealed.

The Common Knowledge review states: “[Bourdieu's] short book on Heidegger, published before the recent revelations of the philosopher’s devoted commitment to Nazism through and beyond the defeat of the Third Reich, is a brilliant contribution to what is now called ‘contextualization’ (i.e., of Heidegger’s thought). Richard Rorty dismissed Heidegger’s Nazism on the ground that it had nothing to do with his philosophy; no reader of Bourdieu’s book will be able to continue to believe this for a moment.”

Yes yes yes. Shucks, biglang na-curious tuloy ako sa aklat na 'to.

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