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Friday, May 07, 2010
 
Adam Kirsch reviews the Faye book and Stranger From Abroad in the New York Times.
For the truth is that Heidegger was much more than a “leading citizen” who “accommodated” the Nazi regime; and Arendt had good reasons to apply to him a standard of judgment at least as unforgiving as the one that she notoriously used when finding European Jewish leaders responsible for enabling the Holocaust (in “Eichmann in Jerusalem”).
Being neither a German citizen nor a Jew, I'll leave it to others to judge Hannah and Martin for their crimes, and stick to their contributions to philosophy. Unless, of course, some new tidbit, which piques my prurient interests, is unveiled.
 
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