I took a seminar on the German Novelle and the Heideggerian notion of Ereignis, or “event,” an apt pairing because the patron saint of German letters, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, characterized a Novelle as narrating a “an unprecedented event that has occurred.” Amid discussions of affectedly hyphenated Be-ing and the substantive Nothing, our professor brought up, briefly, Heidegger’s association with the Nazis, characterizing it as a brief dabbling. (I mean, come on, the man schtupped Hannah Arendt—what more do you want?)

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