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From Mitsein to Volk : Jean-Luc Nancy and the Geschichtlichkeit question in Heidegger
Colledge, Richard J.
Colledge, Richard J.
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Recent years have seen an accentuation in claims that early Heideggerian works are infected with totalitarian ideas that came to full realisation in the early 1930s. In challenging this claim, I suggest that the trajectory from Geschichtlichkeit and Mitsein in Being and Time to Heidegger’s later lamentable political involvements is both complicated and tenuous. After first defending this stance with reference to the account of Schuld in Being and Time, I draw substantively on the work of Jean-Luc Nancy in arguing that Heidegger’s later political thought amounts to a perversion of his earlier admittedly under-developed accounts of Geschichtlichkeit and Mitsein. Further, with Nancy, I suggest there is much to be learned here more generally—both by Heidegger’s great insights and great failures—concerning the dialectic of self and community.
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Martin Heidegger, Jean-Luc Nancy, Geschichtlichkeit, Mitsein, National Socialism
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2023
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The new yearbook for phenomenology and phenomenological philosophy ; volume 21
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357-375
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Faculty of Theology and Philosophy
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