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Article: Heidegger's retrieval of Aristotle and the relation of Volk and science in the Rector's Address of 1933
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- Philosophy Today
- Article date:
- April 1, 2003
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Heidegger's "Rector's Address" has drawn perhaps inordinate attention in recent years, particularly as evidence of Heidegger's "involvement" in National Socialism-which it undoubtedly offers. The interpretations of Ott (150-58), Rockmore (54-72), Philipse (268-69), Kochler (205-- 09), and Fritsch
e (217-24) among others, are typical in the sense that they implicate Heidegger in the totalitarian designs of National Socialism, even if they allow that Heidegger's version of Nazism was not necessarily racist, in fact, unorthodox in its entire tendency. Yet the philosophical grounds of Heidegger's invocation of the fundamental interrelation of Volk, work service, and science in the Address remain ...