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1 0 Interpretation R EFERENCES A grant from the Earhart Foundation made possible some of the research on which this paper is based. Klein, Jacob. 1974. Leo Strauss: 1899-1973. The College (January): 2. Strauss, Leo. 1952. The Political Philosophy of Hobbes: Its Basis and Its Genesis. Trans. Elsa M. Sinclair. Chicago: University of Chicago Press. ———. 1959. What Is Political Philosophy? Glencoe, Ill.: Free Press. ———. 1964. The City and Man. Chicago: Rand McNally. ———. 1986. Esoteric Teaching. Interpretation 14/1. ———. 1989. An Introduction to Political Philosophy: Ten Essays. Ed. Hilail Gildin. Detroit: Wayne State University Press. ———. 1991. On Tyranny. Revised and expanded edition. New York: Free Press. ———. 1997. Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity: Essays and Lectures in Modern Jewish Thought. Ed. Kenneth Hart Green. Albany: SUNY Press. ———. 1999. German Nihilism. Interpretation 26/3.
Beyond Struggle and Power: Heidegger’s Secret Resistance 1 1 Beyond Struggle and Power: Heidegger’s Secret Resistance R ICHARD P OLT XAVIER UNIVERSITY polt@xavier.edu [To be published in German translation as “Jenseits von Kampf und Macht: Heideggers geheimer Widerstand.” In Heidegger und der Nationalsozialismus, Heidegger-Jahrbuch IV, ed. Alfred Denker and Holger Zaborowski. Freiburg: Karl Alber, forthcoming.] The Germans have been torn away from their essential ground—which they have never yet found, much less grounded—and are staggering in the alienation from their essence that was thrust upon them by modernity. Überlegungen IX We no longer need to speculate about Heidegger’s political ideas during the National Socialist regime, or about the depth and nature of his commitment. Twenty years ago, only some speeches and documents from the rectorate of 1933-1934 and a few, cryptic later statements were publicly available; now, thanks to the ongoing publication of Heidegger’s Gesamtausgabe,we have thousands of pages of lecture courses and private writings that give us a clear picture of his positions. There is both bad news and good news. On the negative side, for example, the lecture course of winter semester 1933-1934 shows Rector Heidegger at his most chilling: interpreting Heraclitean polemos as Kampf in a genuinely Hitlerian spirit, he calls for the relentless pursuit of the (unnamed) ©2007 Interpretation, Inc.
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