Heidegger Documentary "Only a God Can Save Us" | Director Interview with Stephen Hicks

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An interview with Jeffrey Van Davis, the director of the documentary, "Only A God Can Save Us." The documentary can be found at: • "Only a God Can Save U...
Mr. Van Davis and Dr. Hicks discuss the origins of the documentary, some details about its composition, his encounters with the Heidegger family, the premiere of the documentary and more details on the life of Heidegger.
Timestamps:
00:00 Introduction
01:03 How did you come to make this film?
02:15 What drew you to Heidegger?
03:35 Your career highlights
05:25 Heidegger in the 1920s
06:49 Heidegger's reputation in the 1920s
08:40 Heidegger as a political thinker
10:40 Heidegger's influences in 1920s
12:50 Evidence of his awareness of Nazism in 1920s
17:24 Nazism comes to power
21:36 Heidegger's postwar thought and actions
23:33 His postwar political thoughts
26:37 How closely was his philosophy tied to Nazism
27:32 Philosopher or cultural activist?
28:47 The making of the film
37:30 The release of the film
42:40 Elfride Heidegger-the enthusiastic Nazi
45:15 The features of the film
47:32 The reaction of Heidegger apologists
Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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@ansmut Жыл бұрын

To claim that the reason he didn't rewrite his works after the war was because he was 'narcissistic' displays the difference between those who 'think' for money and a man whose standards of truth is beyond the reach of money.

@metapolitikgedanken612 Жыл бұрын

Yes, to me it adds to the credit of the person, when it doesn't role where the wind is blowing, whenever the political power relations do change. And well, Heidegger was right about many things. Including Jews in many ways.

@OscarCuzzani 6 ай бұрын

I agree. I think Heidegger had a historic view of his work and perceived that his work was way ahead of his time, like Nietzsche realized too.

@brettcarroll4676 Жыл бұрын

Thank you for sharing! I'll be looking for this film.

@bbqnice1 Жыл бұрын

this is such a good philosophy channel

@garyedavis6486 4 ай бұрын

Stephen Hicks does a good job of evincing Davis's attitudes, which provides important context. In case the CEEE channel disappears, I hope that this interview remains available.

@cameronkrause4712 Жыл бұрын

" I have a masters degree in Philosophy, I'm not a philosopher." I didn't know being a philosopher was so exclusive.

@lindacianchetti3599 Жыл бұрын

I know! I laughed.

@erlinacobrado7947 4 ай бұрын

Reminds me of Leo Strauss who insisted he was not a philosopher but only a scholar.

@richardzellers Жыл бұрын

Thanks for all your posts!

@vaughanosgan2623 Жыл бұрын

Superb post.....I have followed the similar tradition.......

@4kassis Жыл бұрын

I can think of another reason why Heidegger never spoke about National Socialism after the war: there was what I like to call national amnesia on the subject. Nobody talked about what happened right after the war - I grew up in the 50s, I remember.... there was too much pain, too many things nobody wanted to remember, so it took almost a whole generation until the subjects could be approached again.

@StephenHicksPhilosopher Жыл бұрын

The documentary itself is here: kzfaq.info/get/bejne/lbp1eK2W3sCykYE.html.

@bbqnice1 Жыл бұрын

omg dude u make a Heidegger documentary that's frank about his Nazism and the Heidegger family shows up to a packed house

@timreading5005 Жыл бұрын

An interesting definition of the word Goal.... Please keep on banging it on napoleons card you Star spangled gypsy 👌💚💣♒

@oldsachem Жыл бұрын

Prof. Hicks, please analyze what elements of Heidegger appear in the ideological writings of the PRC communist intellectual and official Wang Huning.

@StephenHicksPhilosopher Жыл бұрын

I haven't read those works. Where's the best place to start?

@oldsachem Жыл бұрын

@@StephenHicksPhilosopher not enough to identify the work/s. One must find a trustworthy translator, I know one, but we need to transport her and her parents out of danger.

@excitingworld364 3 ай бұрын

Please stop saying he is the greatest philosopher! His genius is a mirage, a case of people having convinced themselves in what has no foundation in reality!

@OscarCuzzani 6 ай бұрын

van Davies acknowledged that his film was one sided. Pity to watch a film that didn’t recognize the merits of a thinker. Many famous artists, scientists had a dark side in their lives, we all still accept that humans are not perfect. The idea of Heidegger being narcissistic may explain his reluctance to apologize. Another element that I have missed is that Nietzsche was not mentioned. Did Heidegger neglected him because Nietzsche was pro Semitic? As we out in scientific papers, more research is needed.

@ricardocima Жыл бұрын

Carlos V spoke german to his horse, not Frederick the Great.

@OscarCuzzani 6 ай бұрын

The statement is correct. Friedrich the Great spoke French and only German to peasants and horses. All his writings including his famous attack to Machiavelli, were in French.

@ricardocima 6 ай бұрын

@@OscarCuzzani As king, Frederick was renowned for being a fine military strategist; but he also continued to show artistic flair in his musical compositions and his writing. He conjectured on history, tackled philosophy and penned verse - and he did so all in French, not German. When Frederick received Johann Christoph Gottsched in 1757, he is reported to have admitted that he spoke German like a coachman (‘comme un cocher’); French was Frederick’s preferred language of scholarly and literary discourse. The infamous words supposedly uttered by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) are frequently (mis)attributed to Frederick: that he spoke Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to his horse. Nevertheless, the commonly held belief that Frederick was disparaging of the German language is absolutely correct.

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