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488 NOTES TO PAGES 441-443
23. Heidegger, quoted in Kisiel, p. 486. "Der EntschluB zum Abbruch der
Veroffentlichung wurde gefasst an dem Tage, als uns die Nachricht vom Tode
R. M. Rilkes traf."
24. See Kisiel's "Genealogical Glossary of Heidegger's Basic Terms, 1915-
1927," in Kisiel, Genesis, pp. 490-511.
25. According to Jiirgen Habermas, it was the distance Heidegger tried to
take from the concrete details of his historical and social environment which
made his work so open to its "unfiltered" influences: "Such abstraction from
the complexities of social life accounts for Heidegger's unfiltered use of popular
trends in the interpretation of that historical moment. The more real history
disappeared behind 'historicity,' the more Heidegger was prone to engage in
pretentious and naive reference to such diagnoses." See "Martin Heidegger:
Werk und Weltanschauung," in Habermas, Texte und Kontexte (Frankfurt,
1991), p. 52.
26. Such a generalizing evaluation of the status of Sein und Zeit-and,
subsequently, of the contribution that a historical reading could make-of
course depends on how seriously one takes the Kehre ("turn") which, according
to Heidegger, changed the trajectory of his thinking from the mid-1930s on. For
a synopsis of different positions concerning the Kehre, see Ernst Behler, Confrontations:
Derrida, Heidegger, Nietzsche (Stanford, 1991), pp. 40ff.
27. A similar program has been carried out, quite successfully, by Pierre
Bourdieu in The Political Ontology of Martin Heidegger (Stanford, 1991). In
contrast to him, I will limit my demonstration to those motifs which can be
specifically associated with the year 1926. And whereas Bourdieu identified only
individual elements of Sein und Zeit as being rooted in its historical environment,
I shall focus, rather, on the structure of the book's argument.
28. See Bourdieu, Political Ontology, p. 115. For the (pre)history of this
concept, see Ferdinand Fellmann, Gelebte Philosophie in Deutschland: Denkformen
der Lebensweltphanomenologie und der kritischen Theorie (Freiburg,
1983), pp. 98-109.
29. The original French version of Heidegger et Ie nazisme was published by
Editions Verdier (Lagrasse, 1987).
30. See Habermas, "Martin Heidegger," pp. 67ff.
31. See ibid., p. 53; Behler, pp. 40ff.; and the essays by Hans Georg Gadamer,
Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jacques Derrida in Critical Inquiry (Winter
1989). In contrast, Jean-Fran