ISSN: 2641-9130
Authors: Quesada Martín J*
The aim of the present paper is to clarify the relationship, within Heidegger’s thought, between (a) his 1916 anti-Semitism of the spirit, and (b) his criticism of Husserl’s transcendental phenomenology of 1923-24. The latter took place, in turn, within the framework of the criticism of the essence of modern metaphysics as a calculated omission of the question about Being. An intentional forgetting due to the universalist machinations proper of theoretical thinking (abstract: without soil, without homeland). Hence, Heidegger’s spiritual anti-Semitism ends up transformed, through his criticism of Husserl’s phenomenology, in a metaphysical anti-Semitism. According to it, there is an analogy between (a) the judaization of the German spirit and culture; and (b) the (theoretical) essence of modern metaphysics. As an historian of philosophy, Heidegger reaches the conclusion that the reason that prevents Husserl from delving into the true experiences (originally German) is his own race. I conclude that the Shoah could only find its way in the spirit of an epoch whose racism had been grounded by Heidegger through his denial of philosophy
Keywords: Heidegger’s; Anti-Semitism; Spirit
