Re:
CC>From: Christopher Coleman <coleman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
CC>I understand your point about ad hominem argument here, but neither
CC>Foucault's homosexuality nor Rorty's often disconcerting resemblance
CC>to Homer Simpson could be considered "great errors," certainly not in
CC>the same sense that we consider complicity with the Nazis a
CC>"great error." Though I don't "disregard" Heidegger by any means,
CC>the fact that the man, Martin Heidegger, was a National Socialist, is
CC>worthy of consideration and vigilant suspicion.
Hear hear, I agree. And for me, reading Heidegger for the first time a
few months ago (in 20th century theology course since he is
foundational in many ways for Karl Rahner, Rudolf Bultmann et al) the
reality of the man's support of Nazism hung as a cloud over the text. I
could not dissociate the text from the author. (Difficult to read about
Dasein and miteinander when being-itself was being taken away from
millions and when Heidegger was hardly practicing the __miteinander__ he
took to be fundamental to existence. Of course, read the man, but
pull out the hermeneutics of suspicion, I say. (Thank you, Paul
Ricoeur and Elisabeth Schussler Fiorenza.)
By the way, I haven't forgotten the question someone recently asked me
about France and intellectual life there. Give me a few more days --
I'm a Catholic with Jewish relatives so besides the usual Ph.D. homework
I've been deep in a double dose of religious commemoration all week and
will be through Sunday.
Jane Redmont
Graduate Theological Union
Berkeley
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