Friday, June 09, 2006
Who was Frédéric de Towarnicki? He was the French officer who sought out Heidegger in French occupied Bavaria.
[I]t was precisely during that year 1945, that he met the man who changed his life : cultural coordinator of the Army division of the Rhine et Danube, and in order to prepare a meeting between philosophers Sartre and Heidegger, he went to the Black Forrest to talk to the German philosopher whose Sein und Zeit had dazzled him.He gave Heidegger a copy of L'être et le néant. In the Fall he returned to Paris with Heidegger's letter to Sartre, expressing his agreement with a meeting in Baden-Baden and inviting Sartre to Todtnauberg. ¶ 2:35 PM
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Is there an account of this meeting? There has to be one somewhere.
P 172, Adieux
Sartre: When I was a prisoner a German officer asked me whether I was in need of anything, and I answered,"Heidegger."
P 172, Adieux
Sartre: When I was a prisoner a German officer asked me whether I was in need of anything, and I answered,"Heidegger."
It didn't occur. Moving around in that part of the world was too difficult the winter of 1945. Later, Heidegger enthusiasm for Sartre decreased, as he realised he didn't need Sartre's existentialist coat-tails to get back in the game.
Finally, in 1953, Sartre visited Todtnauberg following a lecture in Freiburg, leaving de Beauvoir in Freiburg. Indicating the "Boy's own club"-- phallologocentrist--aspects of philosophy. Some would argue that de Beauvoir understood Heidegger better. In her diary de Beauvoir reports that Sartre found him to mystical.
Good quote, that bit from Adieux.
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Finally, in 1953, Sartre visited Todtnauberg following a lecture in Freiburg, leaving de Beauvoir in Freiburg. Indicating the "Boy's own club"-- phallologocentrist--aspects of philosophy. Some would argue that de Beauvoir understood Heidegger better. In her diary de Beauvoir reports that Sartre found him to mystical.
Good quote, that bit from Adieux.
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