L’art d’enseigner de Martin Heidegger

by Valerie Allen, Ares D. Axiotis, translated by Xavier Blandin

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Extent: 96 pages

Publisher: Klincksieck

Subjects: Philosophy

Series: Pouvoirs de persuasion

Series volume number: 1

Language: French

Paperback (Published)

(October 2007)

ISBN: 9782252036396

Price: $25.00

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En juillet 1945 Martin Heidegger comparait devant la commission de denazification pour y repondre de deux chefs d’accusation : avoir mis l’universite de Fribourg, dont il avait ete recteur, au service du parti national-socialiste…


Imagine the transcript of the deposition of Martin Heidegger before the Committee on De-Nazification of Freiburg University in July 1945. Here would be a speech on a par with the apology of Socrates. At the beginning and at the end of metaphysics, the two greatest philosophers on trial–and, remarkably, on the same charges of impiety and corrupting youth, and by the same accusers, the powers of democracy restored. The alleged reactionary irrationalism of Heidegger’s thought had purportedly led him to make the worse argument appear the stronger. This modern-day Socrates was indicted for the “impiety” of turning the free space of the academy into the platform of National Socialist ideology, and for “corrupting” German youth, by indoctrinating them with Nazi propaganda and inciting them to action. Consider Heidegger in extremis, defending himself on the basis of a view of the meaning of higher education and pedagogy in general as Greek paideia, irreducible to either of the two predominant educational alternatives characteristic of modernity, liberal education and professional training.

  • By (author) Valerie Allen
  • By (author) Ares D Axiotis
  • Translated by Xavier Blandin

"Supercherie editoriale ? Canular ? Subtil exercice de rhetorique ? Meme la presse de reference s'y est laisse prendre. On reste donc partage entre l'admiration pour cet exercice rhetorique ou deux fins connaisseurs ont su se laisser ventriloquer par Heidegger - au point que le pseudo-Heidegger vaut l'authentique-, et l'etonnement de voir un editeur repute serieux s'appliquer si savamment a induire le chaland en erreur. Mark Hunyadi"