Tempest in a demitasseThis French website,
Paroles des Jours, is up in arms over an interview with Emmanuel Faye in a French literary magazine. In the interview Ms. Faye says nasty things about Mr. Heidegger. The site has also been sending an email around the philo-webo-sphere with the follwing terse message:
French philosophers fight back!
Determined to oppose the slanderous campaign which followed the publication of the outrageous essay by Emmanuel Faye (insinuating Martin Heidegger to have inspired Hitler and Heydrich), some of the most eminent french philosophers, translators and experts of Heidegger's works and thought, answer online in a special project put out on the website dedicated to litterature and philosophy entitled "Paroles des Jours".
With my limited French, as far as I can tell, beyond the spurious claim that Heidegger inspired Hitler, Ms. Faye's accusations and supporting evidence are a rehash of the same documents, etc., already familiar to students of
L'affaire Heidegger. They sure have a lot on content on that site: editorials, letters to the editor, interviews, video. It is the most passionate web gathering of philosophers
since the New York Times' nasty obituary for Derrida.