Heidegger "enframed".
Reread a Mandioso Forum in Le Monde(September 26, 2014) on the
Heidegger case. It seems that the French intelligentsia wakes up by pretending to
discover anti-Semitism and the proximity of Heideggr with Nazism, apparently carefully hidden by very
complacent translators; but points out Mandioso, the main problem is that
Heidegger has not anything interesting to say on the modern world, for his
ignorance of science is so profound. Quotes:
"The main problem is
obviously that the philosophy of Heidegger is made largely of language games
and turns to extreme poverty; behind the heidegerrien jargon, its sparse poetic
quotations and his fanciful etymologies which derive German from Greeks, there
is not much serious in lla this”
«Industrial farming rooms, gas
and nuclear plants are the inevitable consequence of an initial unveiling, for
such is the fate of the man "organized technically," who gave up Being
' (this is the famous " enframing"). “Technology is the
contrary of the destiny of man man -
"be the guardian of Being".
The success of Heidegger explains
in a straightforward manner: «it flatters the intellectual laziness that allows
the philosopher neglecting whole sections of reality, to devote himself to the
meditation of the great texts, philosophy thus being limited to an exercise of
autojustification”
Add the revelation of the "Black
Books" which have just been published. (cf France Culture,, Heidegger et l
' antisémitisme, 17 oct 14): only Germans manage to conquer the essence of the
theoria, in which they are the sole heirs of the Greeks; On the contrary, the
Jews express fully in gifts for calculation, in the technique which uproots and
deterritorialize, while the philosophy of Heidegger enhances the romanticism of
blood and soil,
My positivist preference
Sorry, but if it comes to think about
science and technology, I prefer and find safer and more interesting my dear
positivists.
"Science does not think"
dixit Heidegger, it depoetizes the world and destroys the Being
This, more than 50 years before,
of the positivist Bridges:
"It is clear that in the
invention of a hypothesis, the highest faculties of imagination are brought
into play. No one doubts that Kepler and Archimedes were endowed with
imaginative and also powerful forces as those of Aeschylus or Milton. And in
this mental process, not only the imagination, but the most noble affects of
man, thought Comte, are also active. »
On racism and essentialization of
Germans and Jews:
«It is certainly one of the most strange
inventions of the current literature to support that there are ideas that are
characteristic of races «(Pierre Laffitte)
"We do not belong to a race,
but to a civilization established by twenty different peoples... Apart from the
major known divisions - the white, the yellow, the black -, races,
physiological races, do not exist. There are sociological races. For my account, I am not
of Celtic race, despite the structure of my name. I am of a civilization of
Hellenism, of Romanism and finally of Europeanism” (Lavertujon)
Thinking against the Enlightments,
against Science, against Technique and for the mysticism of the soil and blood could only lead Heidegger to the confines of Nazism,
predispose him to serve as instrument of the nazis, what he did, and without never,
even after the war, even despite the exhortations of subjugated disciples such
as Jonas or Arendt, never express any remorse.
There is also a disturbing disregard
for democracy, that he transmitted to Hans Jonas, the father of the “Imperative
of Responsibility”, and partially, of the “principe de précaution”. Read Hans
Jonas violently criticizing democracy, unable to take into account the fate of
future generations, and to congratulate the former USSR (that of Brezhnev) for being able to impose on its people a
blessed frugality, asceticism and other sacrifices ; and to oppose to a condemnable
society of abundance. And also hear him call to "heuristics of fear», to
renounce to reason, discussion, demonstration to convince and to replace all
of this with fear; and also to substitute divine inspiration for science.
We are far from the attachment of
the positivists to popular education, the alliance of the proletarians,
scholars and philosophers, for physical, mental, spiritual progress.
No, whether
he was a little, much, passionately nazi, there is nothing to save in
Heidegger. and if we wish seriously to think about science and technology, we have to look
elsewhere
