In-der-Blog-sein

Philosophical Conversations continues posting and weaving strands of Geist and university reform:

Derrida is critical of Heidegger's conception of historicity as fate or destiny because of the contamination of spirit by (German) nationalism. Derrida interprets Geist in terms of the destiny of the west as a spiritual force and argues that the price of the latter strategy is contamination by the racism and the biologizing of 'blood and soil.' Heidegger does not deconstruct Geist.

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