Beyond Struggle and Power: Heidegger's Secret ... - Interpretation
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3 8 <strong>Interpretation</strong><br />
ment’ of physis” (Heidegger ca. 1938). This marginal note refers to §96 of the<br />
GA edition (GA 65, 190). Cf. GA 66, 188, 193–94.<br />
A DDENDUM 3<br />
The range of existing interpretations of the statements on<br />
Nazism in the Contributions is conveniently indicated by the titles of Vietta<br />
1989 <strong>and</strong> Rockmore 1992. The fifth chapters of both books discuss the<br />
Beiträge. Vietta’s perspective is closer to the truth. Rockmore supports his claim<br />
that Heidegger continues to share the Nazis’“end in view” (186) only by defining<br />
this goal broadly as “the realization of the Germans as German” (189) or<br />
“the realization of the destiny of the German people” (191, cf. 201), even<br />
though Rockmore observes that Heidegger denies that the people is an end in<br />
itself (192, 196). By these st<strong>and</strong>ards, anyone with patriotic sentiments or concern<br />
for a community should be called a Nazi. For another interpretation of the<br />
Contributions as Hitlerian, see Faye 2005, 441–55.<br />
A DDENDUM 4<br />
Faye is at his weakest when he interprets such passages as a<br />
“legitimation” of “the racial foundation of Nazism” (Faye 2005, 460). Faye<br />
seems incapable of hearing the highly critical tone of Heidegger’s account of<br />
racism at this point. Such flaws should not distract us from Faye’s legitimate<br />
achievement in the earlier portions of his book, where he documents the<br />
depths of Heidegger’s Nazism in the early <strong>and</strong> mid-thirties.<br />
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