From: onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR)
Subject: Re: Heidegger and Nazism
Organization: Oklahoma State University
Date: Fri, 21 Aug 92 02:25:43 GMT

From article <1992Aug20.173954.14949@husc3.harvard.edu>, by zeleny@husc9.harvard.edu (Michael Zeleny):
> In article <1992Aug20.191333.26899@a.cs.okstate.edu>
> onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu (ONSTOTT CHARLES OR) writes:
> 
>>From article <1992Aug19.193954.18697@ccu.umanitoba.ca>, by
>>feld@ccu.umanitoba.ca (Michael Feld):
> 
>>some debate(as Mikhail and I have shown), however in light of the challenge
>>I propose, it really makes no difference.
> 
> Since you are taking my name in vain, I will repeat that our "debate"
> consisted of me stating verifiable, well-documented facts, and you
> gainsaying them with a combination of vague generalities and outright
> untruths.

  This is simply not true MIkhail.  Why do you not accept the 
"Fact" that Heidegger did leave the Nazi party?  Why do you not accept
the "fact" that Heideggers leaving consisted of a "don't btoher me
and I won't bother you" compact?  Why do you fail to take into account
the political enviornment within which Heidegger was working as 
an explaination for a particlar "falling"(Heidegger's own term) into
something which Hiedgger removed himself from?  Finally, why do you
not accept this as a justifable and active denunciation, though
verbally silent, of the Nazi party?  Your failure to accept these
facts in no way implies that we have not been having a "debate."

  For the purpose of this argument, I would appreciate hearing
> your confirmation of the fact of Heidegger's membership in the NSDAP, as
> well as on his authorship and delivery of the May 27, 1933 Fribourg
> rectoral address, "The Self-Affirmation of the German University", as well
> as other similar communications, with their encomium of the Fuehrer as the
> sole German reality of the present, and of the future, and of its law, the
> same claim repeated in print as late as in 1953, in the new edition of
> _Introduction to Metaphysics_.  Also I would appreciate your confirmation
> of Heidegger's role as an informer in the case of the chemist Hermann
> Staudinger on September 29, 1933, as well as his denunciation of his
> ex-student, the philosopher Eduard Baumgarten, accused by Heidegger of
> belonging to the liberal democratic circle of Max Weber, and relations with
> the "Jew Fraenkel".  All relevant documents are cuiited by Farias.  Please
> limit yourself to stating your agreement or disagreement with these facts.

Although I have not read the work by Farias, please submit the title
so that I may(email would be fine), if you claim that these are facts,
so be it.  Far be it from me to argue with history.  The central claim
that I have always made has not been one that said "Heidegger was not
a Nazi" but one in which a degree of nazism existed in his life.  
I feel that the historical facts do not support a case tha the
was "tried and true."

> 
> cordially,
> mikhail zeleny@husc.harvard.edu
> "Un de mes plus grands plaisirs est de jurer Dieu quand je bande."
> 

BCnya,
  Charles O. Onstott, III

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Charles O. Onstott, III  Account at Oklahoma State University for summer.
Graduate Student in Religious Studies           onstott@a.cs.okstate.edu
University of Chicago
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