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>>12376112
>The fuck? Only part you might mistake of him for conservative is his antique parts and that's not enough. Big post-modernist, gave deconstruction which got instantly subverted, messed up language.
Heidegger was the definition of conservatism in philosophy and you will have a hard time convincing anyone otherwise. he was postmodern in the sense that he was coming after the transcendental postmodernist himself, that being Nietzsche, but he was far more conservative than Nietzsche was. Nietzsche is who he is because he transcends the political divide, as well as going down another very different route than the one suggested by Hegel (or Marx).

the term for Heidegger is not 'deconstruction' but 'destruction,' (with a k), and which was there for the destruction of largely Platonic and post-Platonic metaphysics. but to assume that he was out to deliberately sabotage or destroy language would be an error. he would have said that in fact it was Platonic-Socratic thought which itself messed up the fundmamental nature of language itself, which is *poetry,* and it is for this reason that he would have liked to restrict philosophy to the presocratics, Nietzsche, and himself. with, i think, an asterisk earmarked for Zen, as he was always very well-received in Japan.

what is 'antique' in Heidegger is *all the way antique.* there is nobody more antiquarian than Heidegger himself. Derrida is one of Heidegger's great disciples, no question, and Derrida - along with Foucault - are the 1 and 1A deconstructionist thinkers. but their projects are not, i think, the same as Heidegger's own. you will find very little of Foucault's interest in power in Heidegger, or Derrida's feels about democracy, or justice, or much else. Heidegger is as conservative as the day is long. he just had the misfortune of trying to conserve what Nietzsche had blown to smithereenies: including, i think, his own desire to square his Catholicism with the Greeks. he still did a pretty good job coming up with his own project anyways, tho. but if Heidegger is not the definition of a conservative philosopher than i don't know what being a conservative philosopher would even mean.

>>10486708
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