БОРБА ЗА ИСТИНУ У „ЦРНИМ СВЕСКАМА“ МАРТИНА ХАЈДЕГЕРА
THE FIGHT FOR TRUTH IN MARTIN HEIDEGGER’S BLACK NOTEBOOKS

Summary/Abstract: In this text and the book from which it is an extract – The Black Notebooks and Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism, the author critically analyzes the most recent debate sparked by Heidegger’s anti-Semitism on the pages of his Black Notebooks (Schwarze Hefte), an ‘intimate’ diary of sorts. The debate began in 2014 and gained momentum, becoming a matter of public relevance and consequently spilling over into the channels of the wider cultural public, eliciting impassioned responses from the wider audience. It was not long before the matter came to be referred to as a ‘scandal’, ‘affair’ or the ‘Heidegger case’. The heavy shadow of anti-Semitism fell on Heidegger, not from the outside but rather from the pages of his own manuscript. The author highlights a ‘veritable paradox in the reception of Heidegger’. Heidegger cannot be rejected (due to his unquestionable National Socialism and anti-Semitism) without first familiarizing oneself with his work and reading and studying his thought as a whole. It follows, then, that discussing his work and thought is both necessary and inevitable. Even those who ultimately became firmly convinced that Heidegger introduced National Socialism into philosophy and thereby betrayed and let down the discipline; that he is not a philosopher at all and that his writings should not be kept on the shelves of philosophy libraries – could not have reached such a sweeping view without first exhaustively and meticulously researching Heidegger and his works. Heidegger is impossible to do away with without first getting acquainted with him or even being close to him. Offering a wide panoramic overview of the various quarrels about the Black Notebooks, the author strives to present the elements that set the dominant tone and main direction of the debate and to peel away the conflicting interpretations to uncover the truth about Heidegger’s anti-Semitism. He does not shy away from offering original hermeneutic approaches and critical remarks. He revisits, critiques, asks new questions and proposes novel judgments about Heidegger, his critics and supporters.

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