Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy

by Peter Trawny

  3. Heidegger, Bremen and Freiburg Lectures, 54; GA 79: 57.

  4. Heidegger, Zum Ereignis-Denken, GA 73.1: 819: “Nostalgia [das Heimweh] is the original mourning [Urtrauer].” The text from which this statement is drawn was composed around 1945.

  5. Worthy of mention is, nonetheless, Heidegger’s encounter with the Auschwitz-surviving psychoanalyst Viktor Frankl in Vienna and in Freiburg at the end of the 1950s. Cf. Frankl, Recollections, 113. Unfortunately, Frankl does not communicate there what was spoken between the two. Even here we might ask whether this encounter is at all conceivable without a conversation about these events. Frankl had given Heidegger the book in which he recalls his time in Auschwitz, . . . trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Drei Vorträge (Man’s Search for Meaning). So far, it has not been found in Heidegger’s literary remains.

  6. Cf. Trawny, Freedom to Fail.

  7. Arendt, Men in Dark Times.

  Afterword to the German Second Edition

  1. Translator’s note: Julius Streicher (1885–1946), virulently anti-Semitic National Socialist publisher and promulgator of anti-Semitic propaganda, executed at Nuremberg.

  2. In the meantime, Anmerkungen I, which was thought missing just a short while ago, is now at hand. Silvio Vietta, in whose possession this Black Notebook was located, says in Die Zeit of January 23, 2014: “In my Black Notebook, there is not a single sentence against Jews, not a single anti-Semitic word” (Cammann, “Vermisstes Werk von Heidegger,” 40). On the basis of my interpretation, I must beg to differ.

  Afterword to the German Third Edition

  1. Paul Celan, Selected Poems and Prose, 389: “Don’t write yourself/in between the worlds,//rise up against/multiple meanings//trust the trail of tears/and learn to live.”

  Bibliography

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  I. Works by Martin Heidegger in German

  Gesamtausgabe. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1976–.

  “Mein liebes Seelchen!” Briefe Martin Hedieggers an seine Frau Elfride 1915–1970. Ed. Gertrud Heidegger. Munich: Deutsche Verlags-Anstalt, 2005.

  Über Wesen und Begriff von Natur, Geschichte und Staat. Übung aus dem Wintersemester 1933/34. In Heidegger und der Nationalsozialismus. Dokumente. Heidegger-Jahrbuch 4. Ed. Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski. 53–88. Freiburg: Karl Alber Verlag, 2009.

  Heidegger, Martin, and Hannah Arendt. Briefe 1925 bis 1975 und andere Zeugnisse. Ed. Ursula Ludz. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann Verlag, 1998.

  Heidegger, Martin, and Kurt Bauch. Briefwechsel 1932–1975. Ed. Almuth Heidegger. Freiburg: Karl Alber Verlag, 2010.

  II. Martin Heidegger in English Translation

  The Basic Problems of Phenomenology. Trans. Albert Hofstadter. Revised ed. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1988.

  Basic Problems of Phenomenology: Winter Semester 1919/1920. Trans. Scott Campbell. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.

  Being and Time. Trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson. San Francisco: Harper and Row, 1962.

  Being and Truth. Trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2010.

  Bremen and Freiburg Lectures: “Insight into That Which Is” and “Basic Principles of Thinking.” Trans. Andrew J. Mitchell. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.

  Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event). Trans. Richard Rojcewicz, and Daniela Vallega-Neu. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2012.

  Discourse on Thinking. Trans. John M. Anderson and E. Hans Freund. New York: Harper, 1966.

  The Essence of Truth: On Plato’s Cave Allegory and “Theaetetus.” Trans. Ted Sadler. New York: Continuum, 2007.

  The Event. Trans. Richard Rojcewicz. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2013.

  Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right,” Winter Semester, 1934–35. Trans. Andrew J. Mitchell. In On Hegel’s “Philosophy of Right”: The 1934–35 Seminar and Interpretive Essays, ed. Michael Marder, Marcia Cavalcante Schubak, and Peter Trawny. 95–200. New York: Bloomsbury, 2014.

  Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister.” Trans. William McNeill and Julia Davis. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1996.

  Identity and Difference. Trans. Joan Stambaugh. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 2002.

  Introduction to Metaphysics. Trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2000.

  Letters to His Wife: 1915–1970. Ed. Gertrud Heidegger. Trans. R. D. V. Glasgow. Malden, MA: Polity Press, 2010.

  Logic as the Question concerning the Essence of Language. Trans. Wanda Torres Gregory and Yvonne Unna. Albany: State University of New York Press, 2009.

  The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic. Trans. Michael Heim. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992.

  Mindfulness. Trans. Parvis Emad and Thomas Kalary. New York: Continuum, 2006.

  Nature, History, State, 1933–1934. Ed. and trans. Gregory Fried and Richard Polt. New York: Bloomsbury, 2013.

  On Time and Being. Trans. Joan Stambaugh. New York: Harper & Row, 1972.

  Pathmarks. Ed. William McNeill. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

  The Phenomenology of Religious Life. Trans. Matthias Fritsch and Jennifer Anna Gosetti-Ferencei. Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2004.

  Poetry, Language, Thought. Ed. and trans. Albert Hofstadter. New York: HarperCollins, 2001.

  What Is a Thing? Trans. W. B. Barton Jr. and Vera Deutsch. Chicago: Henry Regnery, 1967.

  Heidegger, Martin, and Hannah Arendt. Letters: 1925–1975. Ed. Ursula Ludz. Trans. Andrew Shields. Orlando, FL: Harcourt, 2004.

  Heidegger, Martin, and Herbert Marcuse. “An Exchange of Letters.” Trans. Richard Wolin. New German Critique 53 (1991): 28–32.

  III. Works by Other Authors

  Alicke, Klaus-Dieter. Lexikon der jüdischen Gemeinden im deutschen Sprachraum. Vol. 1. Gütersloh: Gütersloher Verlagshaus, 2008.

  Aly, Götz. Why the Germans? Why the Jews?: Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust. Trans. Jefferson Chase. New York: Metropolitan Books, 2014.

  Amato, Massimo, et al., Heidegger à plus forte raison. Paris: Éditions Fayard, 2007.

  Arendt, Hannah. Denktagebuch 1950 bis 1973. Vol. 1. Ed. Ursula Ludz and Ingeborg Nordmann. Munich: Piper Verlag, 2002.

  ———. Eichmann in Jerusalem: A Report on the Banality of Evil. New York: Penguin Books, 1992.

  ———. Men in Dark Times. San Diego: Harcourt Brace, 1993.

  ———. The Origins of Totalitarianism. New edition. San Diego: Harcourt, 1994.

  Arendt, Hannah, and Karl Jaspers. Correspondence: 1926–1969. Ed. Lotte Köhler and Hans Saner. Trans. Robert Kimber and Rita Kimber. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1992.

  Assmann, Jan. Herrschaft und Heil: Politische Theologie in Ägypten, Israel und Europa. Munich: Hanser Verlag, 2000.

  Augustine. The City of God against the Pagans. Ed. and trans. R. W. Dyson. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1998.

  Baumann, Gerhart. Erinnerungen an Paul Celan. Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp Verlag, 1986.

  Baynes, Norman H., ed. The Speeches of Adolf Hitler: April 1922–August 1939. 2 vols. London: Oxford University Press, 1942.

  Benz, Wolfgang. Die Protokolle der Weisen von Zion: Die Legende von der jüdischen Weltverschwörung. Munich: C. H. Beck, 2011.

  ———. Was ist Antisemitismus? Munich: C. H. Beck, 2004.

  Biemel, Walter. Martin Heidegger: An Illustrated Study. Trans. J. L. Mehta. New York: Harcourt Brace Jovanovich, 1976.

  Breeur, Roland, ed. “Randbemerkungen Husserls zu Heideggers Sein und Zeit und Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik.” Husserl Studies 11 (1994): 3–63.

  Buber, Martin. “Sie und Wir.” In Schulte, Deutschtum und Judentum, 154–61.

  Burkert, Walter. Greek Religion: Archaic and Classical. Trans. John Raffan. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1985.

  Calle-Gruber, Mireille, ed. La conférence de Heidelberg: Heidegger, portée philosophique et politique de sa pensée. Paris: Ligne, 2014.r />
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  Celan, Paul. Selected Poems and Prose of Paul Celan. Ed. and trans. John Felstiner. New York: Norton, 2001.

  Cohen, Hermann. “The German and Jewish Ethos I.” In Reason and Hope: Selections from the Jewish Writings of Hermann Cohen, ed. and trans. Eva Jospe, 176–84. New York: W. W. Norton, 1971.

  Darwin, Charles. On the Origin of Species: A Facsimile of the First Edition. Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press, 1964.

  Derrida, Jacques. “Heidegger’s Silence.” Trans. Joachim Neugroschel. In Neske and Kettering, Martin Heidegger and National Socialism, 145–48.

  Di Cesare, Donatella. “Heidegger, das Sein und die Juden.” Information Philosophie 2 (2014): 8–21.

  Diner, Dan. Feindbild Amerika: Über die Beständigkeit eines Ressentiments. Munich: Propylaen Verlag, 2002.

  Domarus, Max. Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–1945, vol. 1: The Years 1932 to 1934. Trans. Mary Fran Gilbert. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1990.

  ———. Hitler: Speeches and Proclamations 1932–1945, vol. 3: The Years 1939 to 1940. Trans. Chris Wilcox. Wauconda, IL: Bolchazy-Carducci, 1997.

  Dor, Milo. Auf dem falschen Dampfer: Fragmente einer Autobiographie. Vienna: Zsolnay Verlag, 1988.

  Farías, Victor. Heidegger and Nazism. Ed. Joseph Margolis and Tom Rockmore. Trans. Paul Burrell, Dominic Di Bernardi, and Gabriel R. Ricci. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1989.

  Faye, Emmanuel. Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy. Trans. Michael B. Smith. New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2011.

  Fichte, Johann Gottlieb. Addresses to the German Nation. Ed. and trans. Gregory Moore. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 2009.

  Figal, Günter, and Hans-Helmuth Gander, eds. Heidegger und Husserl: Neue Perspektiven. 2nd ed. Frankfurt am Main: Klostermann, 2013.

  Frankl, Viktor. Man’s Search for Meaning. Trans. Ilse Lasch. Boston: Beacon Press, 2006.

  ———. Recollections: An Autobiography. Trans. Joseph Fabry and Judith Fabry. New York: Insight Books, 1997.

  ———. . . . trotzdem Ja zum Leben sagen: Drei Vorträge. Vienna: Deuticke Verlag, 1946.

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  Habermas, Jürgen. “Work and Weltanschauung: The Heidegger Controversy from a German Perspective.” Trans. John McCumber. In The New Conservatism: Cultural Criticism and the Historians’ Debate, ed. Shierry Weber Nicholsen, 140–72. Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1991.

  Hegel, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich. Elements of the Philosophy of Right. Ed. Allen W. Wood. Trans. H. B. Nisbet. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1991.

  ———. The Philosophy of History. Trans. J. Sibree. New York: Dover, 1956.

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  ———. Briefwechsel, vol. 3: Die Göttinger Schule. Ed. Karl Schuhmann. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1994.

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  ———. Psychological and Transcendental Phenomenology and the Confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931). Ed. and trans. Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer. Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1997.

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