{"product_id":"heideggers-black-notebooks-responses-to-anti-semitism-9780231180450","title":"Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Responses to Anti-Semitism","description":"\u003cp\u003eFrom the 1930s through the 1970s, the philosopher Martin Heidegger kept a running series of private writings, the so-called \u003ci\u003eBlack Notebook\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003es\u003c\/i\u003e. The recent publication of the \u003ci\u003eBlack Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e volumes from the war years have sparked international controversy. While Heidegger's engagement with National Socialism was well known, the \u003ci\u003eBlack Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e showed for the first time that this anti-Semitism was not merely a personal resentment. They contain not just anti-Semitic remarks, they show Heidegger incorporating basic tropes of anti-Semitism into his philosophical thinking. In them, Heidegger tried to assign a philosophical significance to anti-Semitism, with \"the Jew\" or \"world Judaism\" cast as antagonist in his project. \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eHow, then, are we to engage with a philosophy that, no matter how significant, seems contaminated by anti-Semitism? This book brings together an international group of scholars from a variety of disciplines to discuss the ramifications of the \u003ci\u003eBlack Notebooks\u003c\/i\u003e for philosophy and the humanities at large. Bettina Bergo, Robert Bernasconi, Martin Gessmann, Sander Gilman, Peter E. Gordon, Hans Ulrich Gumbrecht, Michael Marder, Eduardo Mendieta, Richard Polt, Tom Rockmore, Peter Trawny, and Slavoj Zizek discuss issues including anti-Semitism in the \u003ci\u003eBlack Notebooks \u003c\/i\u003eand Heidegger's thought more broadly, such as German conceptions of Jews and Judaism, Heidegger's notions of metaphysics, and anti-Semitism's entanglement with Heidegger's views on modernity and technology, grappling with material as provocative as it is deplorable. In contrast to both those who seek to exonerate Heidegger and those who simply condemn him, and rather than an all-or-nothing view of Heidegger's anti-Semitism, they urge careful reading and rereading of his work to turn Heideggerian thought against itself. These measured and thoughtful responses to one of the major scandals in the history of philosophy unflinchingly take up the tangled and contested legacy of Heideggerian thought.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Andrew J. Mitchell\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Columbia University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 09\/05\/2017\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 280\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.95lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.90h x 5.90w x 0.80d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780231180450","brand":"Columbia University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":45284575805577,"sku":"9780231180450","price":32.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0636\/9240\/6921\/files\/img_030f4de0-0574-41d5-8dfd-609e9a370a61.jpg?v=1771919155","url":"https:\/\/sonsanddaughtersbooks.com\/products\/heideggers-black-notebooks-responses-to-anti-semitism-9780231180450","provider":"Sons and Daughters Books","version":"1.0","type":"link"}