By Richard Brody
The New Yorker - March 27, 2014
The controversy stirred up by the revelations in Evelyn Barish’s new
biography of the literary scholar and “deconstructionist” Paul de Man
(which Louis Menand recently discussed in the magazine)
will, I suspect, seem like a collegial colloquium compared with the
uproar attending the publication of the philosopher Martin Heidegger’s
“Schwarzen Hefte” (“Black Notebooks”), written between 1931 and the early nineteen-seventies.
The first three volumes (1931-41), have been released in German in
the past few months. They’re being published only now because, according to their editor,
Peter Trawny, Heidegger requested that they be the final publications
in his complete works. The notebooks have been the talk of European
op-ed pages, and much of the discussion—at least, in Germany, France,
and Great Britain—is centered on their revelations of Heidegger’s
deep-rooted and unambiguous anti-Semitism.
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