Letter to the Editors
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References
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Messrs Simon du Plock & John Heaton
Editors
Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis
BM Existential
London WC1N 3XX
Dear Editors,
Re: Journal of the Society for Existential Analysis 11.2: 2-10
Many thanks to Hans Cohn for his fine paper on Heidegger and Psychotherapy, with illuminating observations on his personally and philosophically disastrous engagement with National Socialism. Towards the end, Hans lamented Heidegger's non-expression of his shame and guilt resulting from this fateful excursion into vulgar and gruesome politics.
For your interest, the following quotation from the editors' introduction to a book, albeit affectionate (sic), goes some way to respond to Hans' and our abiding painful disappointment with Martin Heidegger.
"Heidegger was profoundly ashamed of having been associated with the Nazis. In two letters to Karl Jaspers, dated 7 March 1950 and 8 April 1950, Heidegger speaks of this shame. In the letter of April 8 he sums up what he has communicated to Jaspers: "What I report here can excuse nothing. Rather, it can explain how, when over the course of years what is virulently evil (Das Bösartige) became manifest, my shame grew - the shame of directly or indirectly having been involved in it."
From: Encounters and Dialogues with Martin Heidegger 1929-1976 by Heinrich Weigand Petzet. Translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly. University of Chicago Press, 1993.
Yours sincerely,
Neville Singh
