On Heidegger's Antisemitism: The Peter Trawny Affair

Abstract:The publication history of Martin Heidegger's work is, in part, a tale of selective and substantive textual expurgations. Only recently, with the publication of The Black Notebooks, has it become clear that many of the Master's pro-Nazi and antisemitic declarations have been systematically extruded from the published versions of his lecture courses and seminars. The following article explores this problem in relation to Peter Trawny's recently published Heidegger apologiae, Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy and Freedom to Fail: Heidegger's Anarchy.