Lecture: Uprooting, Criminality and Machination: Jews and Nazis in Martin Heidegger's Black Notebooks

Xavier University philosophy Professor Richard Polt discusses Jews and Nazis in Martin Heidegger's black notebooks. For decades, controversy has marred the legacy of the German philosopher, whose theories and complicity with the Nazi regime led many to brand him an anti-Semite. Yet there was never an explicit pejorative reference to Jews or Judaism -- until the 2014 publication of his "black notebooks," an intellectual diary he kept during the 1930s and 1940s. This lecture is part of the Department of Jewish Studies 2018 - 19 lecture series, Holocaust Across the Disciplines. Funded in part by the Morris Weiss Award in Holocaust Education. Reception to follow. Co-sponsors: Holocaust Center of San Francisco (a division of Jewish Family and Children's Services), Philosophy Department.