In this book, Federico Dal Bo analyzes the question of Heidegger's anti-Semitism from a deconstructive point of view, appealing not only to philosophy but also to psychoanalysis, gender studies, and critical studies. Deconstruction famously discourages simplistic oppositions whilst encouraging a more careful analysis of cultural and philosophical complexities of a semantic field. In the present case, a deconstructive analysis of Heidegger's anti-Semitism rejects both a stern condemnation of his oeuvre and a simplistic acquittal from this infamous accusation. It rather suggests that the…mehr
In this book, Federico Dal Bo analyzes the question of Heidegger's anti-Semitism from a deconstructive point of view, appealing not only to philosophy but also to psychoanalysis, gender studies, and critical studies. Deconstruction famously discourages simplistic oppositions whilst encouraging a more careful analysis of cultural and philosophical complexities of a semantic field. In the present case, a deconstructive analysis of Heidegger's anti-Semitism rejects both a stern condemnation of his oeuvre and a simplistic acquittal from this infamous accusation. It rather suggests that the question of his anti-Semitism shall be examined from the broader perspective-from the end of metaphysics.
Federico Dal Bo (born 1973) holds a Ph.D. in Translation Studies from the University of Bologna (2005) and a Ph.D. in Jewish Studies from the Free University of Berlin (2009). He has worked as a teaching assistant in Theoretical Philosophy at the University of Bologna, as a research assistant at the Institute for Jewish Studies at the Free University of Berlin, as a Marie Curie Fellow at the Autonomous University of Barcelona, and as a research assistant at the University of Heidelberg. He currently is Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies at the University of Modena and Reggio Emilia. His recent publications include: Emanation and Philosophy of Language: An Introduction to Joseph ben Abraham Giqatilla (Cherub Press, 2019), Deconstructing the Talmud: The Absolute Book (Routledge, 2019), and The Lexical Field of the Substantives of 'Word' in Ancient Hebrew: From the Bible to the Mishnah (Harrassowitz, 2021).
Inhaltsangabe
1 Introduction: A Deconstructive Approach to Heidegger. Ontology and Critical Theory.
"Of Spirit," of Spirits.
The "Scene of Writing:" Plato, Socrates, and Heidegger.
A Philosophy of Desire.
A Deconstructive "Method".
2 Heidegger and the (Ob)scene of Writing. From Heidegger to His Wife and Beyond.
A (Triple) Scene of Writing I: Philosophy.
Beware of Imitations!.
Heidegger's Post Cards.
Heidegger's Erotic Transfers.
3 The mise-en-scène of Heidegger's Ontology Between Privacy and Publicity.
H(a)unting Down Your Own Ghost.
Being Off-Scene.
A German War: Barricades Against Monstrosity.
Schelling as a Tragic Hegel.
A Witness to German Revolution.
Heidegger on Heidegger's Couch.
4 An (Un)conscious Stage of the Mind Heidegger's Philosophical Psychoanalysis.
Heidegger vs Heidegger: Mending His Own Mistakes.
A Modern Art of Confession.
Inscribing a Metaphysical Truth.
A Psychology of Philosophy.
Heidegger vs Freud: The Art of Forgetting.
Eroticism of Forgetfulness.
5 Statolatry Heidegger on the Education and the Future of German University.
Statolatry: Its Politics and Its Eroticism.
Being Without History.
A (Triple) Scene of Writing II: Philology.
A New Language, a New Philology.
Academic Egotism.
Putting Philosophy Upside Down.
6 Beyng as a Concealed (Jewish). God Gnosis, Esotericism, and Eroticism.
A Stranger Among Us.
Cocky Warriors.
Reading Being and Time in Teheran.
Private Vices, Public Pleasures.
No Country for (Jewish) Messianism(s).
Onto-Eroticism Toward the Kabbalah.
7 Specters of Moses. "The Transcendence is Empty".