Peter Trawny, Richard Wolin, Thomas Sheehan, Emmanuel Faye, Karsten Harries and others – conference at CUNY, 11-12 September 2012. Thanks to Philippe Theophanidis for the link. Details of another conference on this theme in Atlanta the week before are here.
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It seems to me that the key to understanding Heidegger’s anti-Semitism is the same as the key to his deep-seated anti-Liberalism. The equating of Jews and Liberalism, their intertwining, was a common topos in Germany throughout (and before) the 19th century and into to 20th, up to and including the Nazi period (and beyond). Heidegger is a staunch bearer of this prejudice; cf. e.g. his denunciation of Jewish Liberal Neo-Kantian, Hönigswald, in1933. So philosophically, the task is to rethink Heidegger’s thinking in relation to his rejection of Liberalism and its conception of freedom, and so get over Heidegger’s being Back in Black.
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