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Richard Polt: Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties

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  1. Heidegger’s fascination with silence goes back at least to his time at Marburg, where, in his eulogy of Paul Natorp, he describes his late colleague as “one of those men with whom one could walk in silence” (Heidegger 2003: 4).

  2. “Conscience discourses solely and constantly in the mode of keeping silent” (Heidegger 1962: 273).

  3. “The call asserts nothing, gives no information about world-events, has nothing to tell” (Heidegger 1962: 273).

  4. Heidegger, in fact, mostly says ‘nothing at all,’ but smokes in ‘silence’ when he spends time with his rural neighbors (GA 13; 10/WS 17) (p. 102).

  5. In the 1920s, they referred to themselves as philosophical “comrades in arms [Kampfgemeinschaft]” (Heidegger and Jaspers 1990: 33).

  6. In the Der Spiegel interview, years later, Heidegger describes his relationship with Jaspers in the 1930s as positive, and indicative of how his persona was not changed by his political affiliation (Heidegger 2000: 659).

  7. In this latter, Jaspers claims that contrary to what Heidegger says in the 1966 Der Spiegel interview, their relationship fell apart leading up to the war and remained disconnected until after it. Jaspers tells Arendt: “He didn’t [send good wishes on my birthday despite saying he would.] No more than he said a word in 1937 when I was stripped of my university post” (Arendt and Jaspers 1992: 630).

  8. Polt is citing a speech by Heidegger (Heidegger 2013: 49).

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Preston, J.J. Richard Polt: Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties. Hum Stud 44, 821–827 (2021). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10746-021-09610-6

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