“Heidegger's Anti-Semitism: Philosophy or Worldview?” by Tom Rockmore, Emory University, Sept. 2014

[AUDIO ONLY] Tom Rockmore’s presentation at the “Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism” conference, Emory University, September 5-6, 2014. More ⤵︎
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“The recently published "Black Notebooks" of 20th century German philosopher Martin Heidegger [were] the focus of a public conference at Emory University Sept. 5-6, 2014. [...]
Heidegger's "Black Notebooks" contain his private political ruminations from the years 1931 to 1944, including his conception of National Socialism (Nazism). The notebooks show a strain of anti-Semitism in his thinking previously unknown. The Emory conference [addressed ]these issues along with broader concerns such as the relation of philosophy to politics, the role of the intellectual in society, the problem of modernity and the tension between the public and the private.”