tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post6765548484927118962..comments2024-02-29T03:34:23.190-05:00Comments on Who Were the Sea Peoples?: Chickening Out or Prudence? You Decidegcallahhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comBlogger4125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-18889100601227664062011-08-21T14:12:16.342-04:002011-08-21T14:12:16.342-04:00Oops; didn't realise it'd link through to ...Oops; didn't realise it'd link through to something I'd not touched in months.<br /><br />I think what's happened there is, I've not explained properly want I meant. On the one hand, I don't think it's a case of 'prudence'; Arendt probably wouldn't have expected the general reader to assume negative comments about Heidegger were personal, as the affair was not common knowledge. I'm not sure what she would be afraid of happening if she had mentioned Heidegger in OT; they were back in contact about the time she was writing it, so might have been afraid to have fallen out more comprehensively, I suppose.<br /><br />Schmitt's presumably in there because his theoretical work does link to his Nazi-supporting phase. Arendt's account of Heidegger is that his philosophical work failed to protect him from making a dreadful error but wasn't contributory to it.AGDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802543480769396706noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-30158627356085950452011-08-21T13:32:34.491-04:002011-08-21T13:32:34.491-04:00Is it relevant if the affair was know for my quest...Is it relevant if the affair was know for my questions to be relevant, AGD? I'm not asking whether leaving Heidegger out would be <em>seen</em> as cowardice or prudence, I'm asking <em>was</em> it either?gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-78226387329278451522011-08-21T12:39:55.896-04:002011-08-21T12:39:55.896-04:00AGD, thanks for the correction.
And how can I be ...AGD, thanks for the correction.<br /><br />And how can I be bound to disagree with your blog if there are no posts?gcallahhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10065877215969589482noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7225373.post-75058935238338963392011-08-21T04:54:39.969-04:002011-08-21T04:54:39.969-04:00The Arendt-Heidegger wasn't widely known about...The Arendt-Heidegger wasn't widely known about at the time, so is unlikely to be contributory in the either way you suggest. It may also have been too fresh a wound for Arendt to want to think about at the time. <br /><br />She does criticise him very sharply, mainly on philosophical grounds, in 'What is Existential Philosophy?', published in Partisan Review in 1946. The PR version of that essay contains a passage which mentions Heidegger's Nazi Party membership; the German-language versino does not. There and elsewhere, her account of him is as an idiot-opportunist who joined for career reasons or because he simply didn't bother to research what the party was really for. This might be why he's not in OT.<br /><br />Oh, one other thing: I think it was Jaspers, rather than Heidegger, who supervised her PhD.AGDhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03802543480769396706noreply@blogger.com