On Martin Heidegger : politics and life seen through the Apollonian-Dionysian duality
This study bears upon the âHeidegger case,â that is, the relation of Heideggerâs philosophizing to his political involvements as Rector of the University of Freiburg 1933-4, and his subsequent silences on the subject of the Holocaust. I use the phrase âbears uponâ for Heideggerâs political involvement will serve as the âhorizonâ for the study, my concern being the genesis of Heideggerâs position. Grounded in a musical âintuitionâ and attunement, I take up the Nietzschean cipher for understanding proposed by Heidegger himself for the self-understanding of the German people: the Apollonian-Dionysian duality, which I apply to the âbeingâ of Heideggerâs own philosophizing. Through this approach I hope to make an original contribution to Heidegger scholarship by showing that Heideggerâs fundamental ontology is overdetermined, evolving out of both the phenomenological demand for a rigorous method in establishing fundamental structures of existence and - at the same time â out of an Apollonian attempt to âtameâ Dionysian existence, including Heideggerâs own. Inextricably interlinked will be the argument that Heideggerâs Auseinandersetzung, his âconfrontation,â with Nietzsche
Davies, Glyndwr Stephen
V500 Philosophy
On Martin Heidegger : politics and life seen through the Apollonian-Dionysian duality. This study bears upon the âHeidegger case,â that is, the relation of Heideggerâs philosophizing to his political involvements as Rector of the University of Freiburg 1933-4, and his subsequent silences on the subject of the Holocaust. I use the phrase âbears uponâ for Heideggerâs political involvement will serve as the âhorizonâ for the study, my concern being the genesis of Heideggerâs position. Grounded in a musical âintuitionâ and attunement, I take up the Nietzschean cipher for understanding proposed by Heidegger himself for the self-understanding of the German people: the Apollonian-Dionysian duality, which I apply to the âbeingâ of Heideggerâs own philosophizing. Through this approach I hope to make an original contribution to Heidegger scholarship by showing that Heideggerâs fundamental ontology is overdetermined, evolving out of both the phenomenological demand for a rigorous method in establishing fundamental structures of existence and - at the same time â out of an Apollonian attempt to âtameâ Dionysian existence, including Heideggerâs own. Inextricably interlinked will be the argument that Heideggerâs Auseinandersetzung, his âconfrontation,â with Nietzsche
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