Heidegger: Phenomenology, Ecology, Politics

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Understanding the political and ecological implications of Heidegger’s work without ignoring his noxious public engagements The most controversial philosopher of the twentieth century, Martin Heidegger has influenced generations of intellectuals even as his involvement with Nazism and blatant anti-Semitism, made even clearer after the publication of his Black Notebooks, have recently prompted some to discard his contributions entirely. For Michael Marder, Heidegger’s thought remains critical for interpretations of contemporary politics and our relation to the natural environment. Bringing together and reframing more than a decade of Marder’s work on Heidegger, this volume questions the wholesale rejection of Heidegger, arguing that dismissive readings of his project overlook the fact that it is impossible to grasp without appreciating his lifelong commitment to phenomenology and that Heidegger’s anti-Semitism is an aberration in his still-relevant ecological and political thought, rather than a defining characteristic. Through close readings of Heidegger’s books and seminars, along with writings by other key phenomenologists and political philosophers, Marder contends that neither Heidegger’s politics nor his reflections on ecology should be considered in isolation from his phenomenology. By demonstrating the codetermination of his phenomenological, ecological, and political thinking, Marder accounts for Heidegger’s failures without either justifying them or suggesting that they invalidate his philosophical endeavor as a whole. Cover Half Title Title Copyright Dedication Contents Introduction: Heidegger’s Eternal Triangle PART I. PHENOMENOLOGY 1 “Higher Than Actuality”: The Possibility of Phenomenology Beyond the Merely Possible, or On Possibility That Is Not Itself Possibility Deformalized, or Existential Energy The Efficacy of the Possible 2 Failure and Nonactualizable Possibility Heidegger’s Failure, or the Failure of Heidegger? The Fecundity of Failure: A Preliminary Outline Deafening Talk, Silent Talk: The Break Failure and “Lawbreaking” When Equipment Fails 3 The Phenomenology of Ontico-Ontological Difference Between Two Phenomenologies The Being of Consciousness The Being of Experience and Truth PART II. ECOLOGY 4 To Open a Site: A Political Phenomenology of Dwelling The Lightning Rod of Ecological Politics The Openedness of Ecological Ethics The Fall of Nomos—from Ontological Rank to Economism and Nihilism The Secret Sources of Political Economy The Need for Housing and the Desire for Dwelling Things: The Last Repositories of Ecology? 5 Devastation The Ontological Devastation—of Ontology Devastation and Disarticulation Devastating Energy What Is to Be Done—about Doing? 6 An Ecology of Property Ecoproperty A Russian Moment: The Event of Privatization Alternatives to the Ecology of Property: Fascism and Liberalism Thinking, the Other Property The Heidegger Event (According to Bibikhin) PART III. POLITICS 7 The Question of Political Existence Ontico-Ontological Difference Politicized The Problem of Political Ontology: Between Hegel and Schmitt Toward a Phenomenological Ontology of Political Existence 8 The Other “Jewish Question” A Question Unraised Emancipation “Semitic Nomads,” Roots, and Race A Non-Figure 9 Philosophy without Right? On Heidegger’s Notes for the 1934–35 “Hegel Seminar” How to Read Heidegger’s Gedankenstriche Completion and Emergence Powerlessness Notes Index A B C D E F G H I J K L M N O P Q R S T U V W X Z