Reexamination of Heidegger's Nazi Problem Based on "the Black Notebooks": From the Viewpoint of Metapolitics

2018 Fiscal Year Final Research Report

• Project/Area Number: 17K13324
• Research Category: Grant-in-Aid for Young Scientists (B)
• Allocation Type: Multi-year Fund
• Research Field: Philosophy/Ethics
• Research Institution: Otani University
• Principal Investigator: Tanabe Yoshiomi 大谷大学, 文学部, 非常勤講師 (90760033)
• Project Period (FY): 2017-04-01 – 2019-03-31
• Keywords: 黒ノート / ナチズム / 人種主義批判 / 身体論 / 存在史的反ユダヤ主義

Outline of Final Research Achievements

This study reexamined the ideological relationship between Heidegger and Nazism, focusing on the analysis of the political and philosophical concept of "metapolitics"(Metapolitik) described in his lectures and the posthumous works "the black notebooks".
The main research results are as follows:(1)As a rector of Freiburg University (1933-34) Heidegger defines the Nazi revolution as the opportunity to "the restarting of philosophy" and names its implementation metapolitics.(2)Metapolitics, however, include criticism of Nazi racism from the viewpoint of human body.(3)Part of the ploblem concerning the so-called "antisemitism of the history of being"(der seinsgeschichtliche Antisemitismus) stems from the lack of clarity on issues related to Heidegger's race theory.

Free Research Field

宗教哲学

Academic Significance and Societal Importance of the Research Achievements

本研究の意義は、「黒ノート」という新資料に依拠して、従来は必ずしも明瞭ではなかったハイデッガーとナチズムとの思想的なかかわりを明らかにしたことである。政治と民族（あるいは人種）をめぐる総長期のハイデッガーの思想動向を解明した本研究の成果は、民族主義（あるいは人種主義）が台頭しつつある現在の世界情勢に対して、哲学的に考察するための一つの視座となるだろう。