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" Nostalgia and (In)Authentic Community: "
Miller, Patrick
Rayman, Joshua;Turner, Stephen
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Latin Dissertation
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English
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1114019
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TLpq2399149590
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Miller, Patrick
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Rayman, Joshua
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Nostalgia and (In)Authentic Community:\ Miller, PatrickRayman, Joshua;Turner, Stephen
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University of South Florida
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2020
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2020
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Ph.D.
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175
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Heidegger’s relationship with Nazism has been debated since the 1930s. In the late 1930s, Georges Bataille wrote an incomplete text that would have added to these debates, “Critique of Heidegger: Critique of a philosophy of fascism.” I draw on this fragment and Bataille’s writings from this era in order to develop a fuller critique of Heidegger and his relationship to fascism. This expanded critique completes the promise of Bataille’s original fragment, offering a full Bataillean criticism of Heidegger and displaying the connections between his philosophy and Bataille’s understanding of fascism. This critique hinges on Heidegger’s concept of authenticity and community, as a Bataillean reading would interpret these ideas as mere inauthentic useful concepts in the name of a nostalgic vision of the ancient Greeks. Heidegger wanted to fight against modern technological alienation—exemplified by the modern sciences and founded on subject based modern metaphysics—by returning to a more originary relationship with Being, but, on Bataille’s reading, without the will to pervert modern ideology and the political system. This desire for a return renders his Destruktion of the history of metaphysics means to an end, further calcifying preexisting values. As a result of this inability to pervert, Heidegger’s return promotes the reconstitution of contemporary political structures with a strong centralized authority figure empowered to guide this nostalgic return.
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Authenticity
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Bataille
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Community
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Fascism
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Heidegger
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Philosophy
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Turner, Stephen
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