TY  - JOUR
TI  - Beyond Heidegger: From ontology to action
AU  - Cooper, Andrew
PY  - 2016
PB  - SAGE Publications
LA  - eng
AB  - Heidegger's blatant anti-Semitism in the recently published volumes of the Black Notebooks has led several philosophers to question the future of Heidegger scholarship. In this article I suggest that the publication of the Notebooks indeed provides a deeper understanding of Heidegger's entanglement with National Socialism. Yet rather than viewing this entanglement as cause to reject his work, I examine how it might help us to define philosophy's role in the project of building a society in which Nazism is impossible. Through reference to Heidegger's public voice during the years covered by the first three volumes of the Black Notebooks I identify a paradox in his thought: Heidegger powerfully diagnoses modernity's penchant to encase the natural and social orders in a determinate ontology, and yet his diagnosis introduces a new kind of determination that actively sides with totalitarianism. By representing the political sphere as the site of ontological movement, Heidegger opens us to the fluidity of politics only to obfuscate the priority of action. Through attending to this paradox I argue that the way of thinking capable of responding to the problems of modern politics cannot be ontological but must be political – with others.
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1177/0725513616683852
DO  - 10.1177/0725513616683852
T2  - Thesis eleven: critical theory and historical sociology
VL  - 140
IS  - 1
SN  - 1461-7455
SN  - 0725-5136
SP  - 90-105
UR  - https://www.pollux-fid.de/r/cr-10.1177/0725513616683852
H1  - Pollux (Fachinformationsdienst Politikwissenschaft)
ER  -