Author: Hans Sluga File Type: pdf p Segoe UI, serif 13pxHeideggers Crisis shows not only how the Nazis exploited philosophical ideas and used philosophers to gain public acceptance, but also how German philosophers played into the hands of the Nazis. Hans Sluga describes the growth, from World War I onward, of a powerful right-wing movement in German philosophy, in which nationalistic, antisemitic, and antidemocratic ideas flourished. p Segoe UI, serif 13px**font face=Segoe UI, serif size=2[Sluga] is much less concerned with proving to himself or to others that Heideggers soul was saved, and instead he sets himself the laudable task of clarifying the political, institutional, and philosophical context in which it all happened. In this he is very successful.Ernest Gellner, The New Republicfontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2The Berkeley philosopher Hans Sluga has written a first-rate account of how Germanys leading intellectuals, who were supposed to possess a broad understanding of German politics and societal reality, readily succumbed to the temptations of Nazi ideology In a series of brilliant intellectual portraits, Sluga demonstrates that German philosophers, starting around the turn of the twentieth century, were shaken by the challenges to their profession posed by societal changes and the rise of the natural sciences.Elliot Neaman, Critical Reviewfontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2Hans Sluga has written a thoughtful work[a] penetrating analysis of the historical crisis within German philosophy itself that positions Heideggers work within its own generational and institutional context. What animates Slugas whole project is its unrelenting focus on the precarious, unstable, and sometimes dangerous interaction between philosophy and politics.Charles Bambach, German Studies Reviewfontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2[T]his authoritative study of German philosophy during the Nazi era does not offer a detailed analysis of the work of Martin Heidegger. Its scope is much wider. Slugaoffers a paradigmatic interpretation of the politics of philosophy exemplified in radical historical circumstances. His reading of the crisis enveloping German philosophy after the First World War rightly concentrates on the notions of nation, leadership, conflict and order, concepts which are shown to be both philosophical and political in nature What this major work achieves is no less than the most readable, intelligent and reliable survey of German fascism in the context of a culture-specific philosophical tradition Heideggers Crisis Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany should be compulsive reading, not only for Germanists.Manfreg Jurgensen, Journal of the Australasian Universities Language and Literature Associationfontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2Sluga tells us its impossible to consider the Nazi involvement of the German philosophers as a touchstone for judging their philosophy. Otherwise, we would have to consign the whole of the philsophy, in all its forms, in all its currents, and with all its differences, to the depths of hell. But Sluga is a philosopher and hears the voice of reason. He pleads in this book for another way forward a call for philosophy to engage in a perpetual self-examination.Didier Eribon, Nouvel Observateurfontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2An important contribution to the continuing effort to comprehend the link between Heideggers nazism and his philosophy.Tom Rockmore, Political Theoryfontfont face=Segoe UI, serif size=2[The authors] aim is neither to indict nor to acquit any single individual. Rather, Sluga maintains, it is the outlook and presuppositions of an entire generation that demand our most urgent scrutiny and, when found guilty, our repudiation Lynching Heidegger is academic scapegoating in the worst sense, for it is nothing other than a diversionary tactic for evading intellectual responsibility.John C. Haugeland, University of Pittsburghfont

Author: Kieran Keohane File Type: pdf This book analyses three of the most prevalent illnesses of late modernity anxiety, depression and Alzheimers disease, in terms of their relation to cultural pathologies of the social body. Usually these conditions are interpreted clinically in terms of individualized symptoms and responded to discretely, as though for the most part unrelated to each other. However, these diseases also have a social and cultural profile that transcends their particular symptomologies and etiologies. Anxiety, depression and Alzheimers are diseases related to disorders of the collective esprit de corps of contemporary society. Multidisciplinary in approach, the book addresses questions of how these conditions are manifest at both the individual and collective levels in relation to hegemonic biomedical and psychologistic understandings. Rejecting such reductive diagnoses, the authors argue that anxiety, depression and Alzheimers disease, as well as other contemporary epidemics, are to be analysed in the light of individual and collective experiences of profound and radical changes in our civilization. A diagnosis of our times, Late Modern Subjectivity and its Discontents will appeal to a broad range of scholars with interests in health and illness, the sociology of medicine and contemporary life.