Heidegger and Jewish Thought: Difficult Others

Authors

David A. White

Abstract

This work is an anthology of fourteen articles on various aspects of Heidegger’s relation to the Jews and, more abstractly, what it means to be Jewish. The essays are arranged under three headings—Heidegger Thinks the Jews, Heidegger and Jewish Thinkers, Heidegger and Jewish Thought. The work also includes an introduction by Elad Lapidot and, as an appendix, Thomas Sheehan’s bibliography of Heidegger’s works (including English translations as of 2017). Lapidot’s introduction highlights the stimulus for the anthology, the publication of Heidegger’s “so-called Black Notebooks,” notes for the years 1931 to 1948. For Lapidot, “about a dozen passages” contain “strong anti-Jewish statements”; the result: “It is not only Heidegger who is on trial now, but his entire heritage, everything that inspired him and that he inspired, an entire intellectual tradition”—in sum, this controversy “manifests a real event of thought” (2).

Recommended Citation

White, David A. (2018) "Heidegger and Jewish Thought: Difficult Others," International Dialogue: Vol. 8, Article 17.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.32873/uno.dc.ID.8.1.1163
Available at: https://digitalcommons.unomaha.edu/id-journal/vol8/iss1/17