Human, All Too Human (BBC) - Martin Heidegger: Part 1
BackHuman, All Too Human (BBC) - Martin Heidegger
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Tags: BBC Friedrich Nietzsche Martin Heidegger Soren Kierkegaard Jean Paul Sartre Albert Camus existentialism exisistential
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electrichealinghands (December 27, 2008 at 5:56 am)
Germany has produced the greatest musicians and philosophers ever, and also the nazis... bizarre, I would have thought thinking and naziism were incongruous with each other..
stilliremainhere (December 15, 2008 at 8:04 am)
...but can you really explain Heidegger's thought in a BBC documentary?!
Transcend2Infinite (December 28, 2008 at 10:29 am)
I don't really think so, though it's intriguing for all those who never really approached him. It might be a start...
Pity for the nazism part. Which is pretty much irrelevant for H's thought, although it seems so "essential" for such a micro-biography. Unfortunately misleading.
Pity for the nazism part. Which is pretty much irrelevant for H's thought, although it seems so "essential" for such a micro-biography. Unfortunately misleading.
zarakhast (December 14, 2008 at 9:05 am)
A study in prejudice (3.23, Thomas Sheehan) : 'There are two incontestable facts about Heidegger. One is that he was a brilliant philosopher. The other was that he was a nefarious Nazi.'
The word 'nefarious' already carries a judgment. It is an approach towards Heidegger which is typical : to not bother to enter into Heideggerian thinking but to PREJUDGE Heidegger according to an inferior mode of thinking. Heidegger's thinking alters all perspectives, including the political.
The word 'nefarious' already carries a judgment. It is an approach towards Heidegger which is typical : to not bother to enter into Heideggerian thinking but to PREJUDGE Heidegger according to an inferior mode of thinking. Heidegger's thinking alters all perspectives, including the political.
zarakhast (December 14, 2008 at 8:54 am)
No-one who concerns himself with Heidegger has a right to venture anything about his 'politics' until he has found his way into his thought. Heidegger clearly stated, many times, that any cure for the world's problems would not be achieved by direct action (i.e. via politics) but only by an inward transformation : by a transition to 'essential thinking'. This fact alone ought to be enough for the fools who persist in pursuing the link between H. and Nazism - but they obviously have an agenda.
zarakhast (December 14, 2008 at 8:48 am)
It's stupid to say that Heidegger's thinking is 'lifted' from anywhere. It derived from an experience of Being which can never be 'copied'. H.'s thinking is (by his own admission) a continuation of the task of Friedrich Nietzsche. Nietzsche completed metaphysics and in so doing caught sight, via metaphysics, of the initial thought of Western history : the eternal return of the same. If it hadn't been for Hitler we would not have been discussing H. in terms of Nazism. It's superficial to do so.
ludachris475 (November 10, 2008 at 4:22 am)
Heidegger looks like a mild mannered Mr. Magoo.
Thresholds (October 15, 2008 at 10:24 am)
I don't know, man. I think it's hard to say and I need to know more about Heidegger as a person to be sure about this answer, but I think that if Heidegger was following Nietzsche at all, then he would have realized how much Nietzsche would have hated the Nazi party. Nietzsche would have classified the Nazis as "resentement manifest," I think. But, maybe Heidegger was following Nietzsche in that he thought the Nazis would provide him with the best enviornment to produce his work - will to power.
sayeed0011 (September 22, 2008 at 9:51 am)
actually heidegger's only "genius" is in covering his tracks and we all know how good he is at that.
his entire "philosophy" (being in the world, being and nothing, technology and nature, letting be, skill and flow the whole bit) is lifted from taoism.
if you have any doubts go see any youtube videos with alan watts. the exact same bloody things he's talking about.
and you know how far easterners, who were probably eager to be validated by europeans, have no trouble understanding heidegger.
his entire "philosophy" (being in the world, being and nothing, technology and nature, letting be, skill and flow the whole bit) is lifted from taoism.
if you have any doubts go see any youtube videos with alan watts. the exact same bloody things he's talking about.
and you know how far easterners, who were probably eager to be validated by europeans, have no trouble understanding heidegger.
123blockhome (September 9, 2008 at 1:36 pm)
I watched the whole thing, and a forewarning is that if you're interested in hearing about history's treatment of his involvement in National Socialism then this is for you, but you won't hear anything at ALL about his philosophy after part 3