In this book, Federico Dal Bo analyzes the question of Heideggers anti-Semitism from a deconstructive point of view, appealing not only to philosophy but also to psychoanalysis, gender studies, and critical studies. Deconstruction famously discourages simplistic oppositions whilst encouraging a more careful analysis of cultural and philosophical complexities of a semantic field. In the present case, a deconstructive analysis of Heideggers anti-Semitism rejects both a stern condemnation of his oeuvre and a simplistic acquittal from this infamous accusation. It rather suggests that the question of his anti-Semitism shall be examined from the broader perspectivefrom the end of metaphysics.
1 Introduction: A Deconstructive Approach to Heidegger. Ontology and Critical Theory.- Of Spirit, of Spirits.- The Scene of Writing: Plato, Socrates, and Heidegger.- A Philosophy of Desire.- A Deconstructive Method.- 2 Heidegger and the (Ob)scene of Writing. From Heidegger to His Wife and Beyond.- A (Triple) Scene of Writing I: Philosophy.- Beware of Imitations!.- Heideggers Post Cards.- Heideggers Erotic Transfers.- 3 The mise-en-sc?ne of Heideggers Ontology Between Privacy and Publicity.- H(a)unting Down Your Own Ghost.- Being Off-Scene.- A German War: Barricades Against Monstrosity.- Schelling as a Tragic Hegel.- A Witness to German Revolution.- Heidegger on Heideggers Couch.- 4 An (Un)conscious Stage of the Mind Heideggers Philosophical Psychoanalysis.- Heidegger vs Heidegger: Mending His Own Mistakes.- A Modern Art of Confession.- Inscribing a Metaphysical Truth.- A Psychology of Philosophy.- Heidegger vs Freud: The Art of Forgetting.- Eroticism of Forgetfulness.- 5 Statolatry Heidegger on the Education and the Future of German University.- Statolatry: Its Politics and Its Eroticism.- Being Without History.- A (Triple) Scene of Writing II: Philology.- A New Language, a New Philology.- Academic Egotism.- Putting Philosophy UplÕ