Heidegger Made Simple (and Offensive)

Joseph Agassi

doi:10.1177/0048393104266442

Heidegger Made Simple (and Offensive)

Joseph Agassi^*

^*Corresponding author for this work

Faculty of Humanities

Research output: Contribution to journal › Review article › peer-review

Abstract

Christopher Rickey (rightly) presents Heidegger as a devout mystic who viewed the Nazi Party as the sacred vessel of a divine message—even though, the author adds, his religion is secular and so it has no divinity and no immortal soul. Rickey sees him as a utopian. This makes some sense: the unique in the Shoah involves the unique descent of a highly cultured, enlightened nation to the rock bottom of barbarism. Ricky's text belies his effort to exonerate Heidegger.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	423-431
Number of pages	9
Journal	Philosophy of the Social Sciences
Volume	34
Issue number	3
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1177/0048393104266442
State	Published - Sep 2004

Keywords

Heidegger
Rickey
barbarism
secular religion

Access to Document

10.1177/0048393104266442

Cite this

@article{23f39b9dfc6e49aebaaa791179a99166,

title = "Heidegger Made Simple (and Offensive)",

abstract = "Christopher Rickey (rightly) presents Heidegger as a devout mystic who viewed the Nazi Party as the sacred vessel of a divine message—even though, the author adds, his religion is secular and so it has no divinity and no immortal soul. Rickey sees him as a utopian. This makes some sense: the unique in the Shoah involves the unique descent of a highly cultured, enlightened nation to the rock bottom of barbarism. Ricky's text belies his effort to exonerate Heidegger.",

keywords = "Heidegger, Rickey, barbarism, secular religion",

author = "Joseph Agassi",

year = "2004",

month = sep,

doi = "10.1177/0048393104266442",

language = "אנגלית",

volume = "34",

pages = "423--431",

journal = "Philosophy of the Social Sciences",

issn = "0048-3931",

publisher = "SAGE Publications Inc.",

number = "3",

}

TY - JOUR

T1 - Heidegger Made Simple (and Offensive)

AU - Agassi, Joseph

PY - 2004/9

Y1 - 2004/9

N2 - Christopher Rickey (rightly) presents Heidegger as a devout mystic who viewed the Nazi Party as the sacred vessel of a divine message—even though, the author adds, his religion is secular and so it has no divinity and no immortal soul. Rickey sees him as a utopian. This makes some sense: the unique in the Shoah involves the unique descent of a highly cultured, enlightened nation to the rock bottom of barbarism. Ricky's text belies his effort to exonerate Heidegger.

AB - Christopher Rickey (rightly) presents Heidegger as a devout mystic who viewed the Nazi Party as the sacred vessel of a divine message—even though, the author adds, his religion is secular and so it has no divinity and no immortal soul. Rickey sees him as a utopian. This makes some sense: the unique in the Shoah involves the unique descent of a highly cultured, enlightened nation to the rock bottom of barbarism. Ricky's text belies his effort to exonerate Heidegger.

KW - Heidegger

KW - Rickey

KW - barbarism

KW - secular religion

UR - http://www.scopus.com/inward/record.url?scp=34248057637&partnerID=8YFLogxK

U2 - 10.1177/0048393104266442

DO - 10.1177/0048393104266442

M3 - ???researchoutput.researchoutputtypes.contributiontojournal.systematicreview???

AN - SCOPUS:34248057637

SN - 0048-3931

VL - 34

SP - 423

EP - 431

JO - Philosophy of the Social Sciences

JF - Philosophy of the Social Sciences

IS - 3

ER -

Heidegger Made Simple (and Offensive)

Abstract

Keywords

Access to Document

Other files and links

Fingerprint

Cite this