Of Spirit: Heidegger and the Question
by Jacques Derrida
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Derrida's lame attempt to save Heidegger from his Nazism. The book begins promisingly: "I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes. And of what, for Heidegger, avoiding means." Derrida's text then becomes an exercise in avoiding. Read along with "The Sound of the Sea Deep Within the Shell," Derrida's equally lame attempt to rescue Paul de Man from his own Nazi problem, for evidence of how deconstruction applies to Derrida as much as to any other writer.
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Read in January, 1996
Essential for anyone wanting to understand how to treat the relationship between Heidegger's philosophy and his national socialism seriously. Also crucial for understanding the ontological themes in deconstruction. One of Derrida's most sustained considerations of Heidegger, whose work shows up in subtle and ambiguous ways in all of Derrida's texts.Also crucial for understanding the complexities of post-modernisms ambivalence towards humanism.
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This is another Derrida work, like Politics of Friendship, that I need to re-read. There is a very important moment in a footnote to the ninth chapter that I base my impressions of this work on, which just emphasizes how little of this I actually retained in reading it.
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Derrida is up to a lot here and the discussion extends well beyond simply addressing Heidegger and Nazism. Heidegger, nor anyone else, leaves Of Spirit unscathed, maybe it's better than way.
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