Abstract
This article examines the continuities between Martin Heidegger’s anti-Semitic statements already known in his letters and seminars and those recently brought to light with the publication of his first Black Notebooks in the Complete Works. It takes its distances from the attempts to elevate that anti-Semitism to a level that is metaphysical, or inscribed in “the history of being,” and shows that Heidegger’s anti-Semitism, like his conception of the “German essence,” his fear of a “deracification” (Entrassung) of Germanity, and his statements about the “self-extermination” of Judaism all participate in the National-Socialist worldview and find forms of expression that are in keeping with the historical and military events of the years 1938-1946.
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