Dreyfus's Heidegger---the quasi-theological "existentialist". Heidegger . I find HF's writing exhausting (tho' granted he knows his conty. philosophasters)

--at least the somewhat constructive, pragmatic -late Heidegger can be put to use (presumably) ...against the forces of ...finance capital for one
 

I think it's a positive development that there are interpretations of things, like Homer and Melville in this book, from a Heideggerian angle that don't require an immersion in Heidegger first. That is how it should be, for Heidegger's way of thinking to extend beyond philosophy departments.
 

More peoples should read Heidegger, at least the good parts. But Im not for more people getting their Heidegger tamed, spayed, neutered via Doktor Dreyfus.

That old book the "Illusion of Technique" (Barrett?) presented Heidegger's thought effectively (and also quite good in relating to philosophical tradition, both cont. and analytical, and in relation to marxism, psychology, science, etc). Though it's probably a bit too...oh, non-PC or not postmodernist or something now.

That said looks slightly interesting.
 

Barrett's Illusion of Technique was one of the books that told me I should read Heidegger.

Philsophy itself, I think, will always have a limited audience, but a philosophical interpretation of something familiar, like the Bible, the Iliad, or the Matrix, can reach the masses, and subvert previous understandings.
 

Dreyfus's attachment to Heidegger seems a bit odd, actually, given that Dreyfus is...jewish (not sure if orthodox but whatever). At times Heidegger did join the anti-semites and assisted in purging jewish professors. Im not overly interested in the Faye-like character slash, but...does Dreyfus mean to imply Heidegger wasn't really anti-semitic, or that his philosophy can be ...judaized in some sense? He's mistaken on either account (tho....Heidegger did finally move away from catholicism...but of course never failed in worshipping the greeks, at least pre-socratic sorts. There may be an anti-rationalist aspect to Heidegger, however, which might appeal to some jews and or protestants for that matter. )
 

I think that the interesting bits of Heidegger apply to everyone, whether anti-semitic, Jewish, Catholic, or athiest. And that Dreyfus reads Heidegger the same way.

"anti-rationalist aspect to Heidegger, however, which might appeal to some jews and or protestants"

And Catholics, like when heidegger talks about the "forgotten mystery of Dasein" (p. 149, Pathmarks).
 

perhaps, tho MH specifically says that Dasein/Being is not God, or gotterung, or whatever jargon he uses, and as you yrself have noted, he also praised greek polytheism.

Spirituality perhaps one might find, yet the many theological types (catholic, prot, otherwise) looking for some confirmation of judeo-xtian monotheism--at least traditional sort-- in MH's writing are quite mistaken , IMHO.