“A Stupidity” is a multi-media Exhibition on the work of the massively influential German philosopher Martin Heidegger. It looks to examine and investigate his involvement in the Nazi Party, which critics argue presents foundational flaws in his ideology, calling his philosophical work into serious question.
The Exhibition comprises of a selection of critical writings on Heidegger’s Nazism, as well as his seminal text “Being and Time”, interposing praise for the thinker’s work as “impossible to ignore” with the anguish of Heideggarian scholars worrying how deep the roots of his fascism might truly run in his work.
A central inspiration for the exhbition is a lecture on Heidegger’s utility in the hands of Alt-Right neo-Fascists by Prof. Gregory Fried, which is a fascinating lecture on the modern urgency of understanding Heidegger’s Nazism.
Alongside the Exhibition, which features a shredder half-way through destroying a copy of Being and Time, the book itself will be reprinted, now including a preface and essays; these are intended to encourage the new Philosophy student to consider critically how Heidegger’s Nazism might indicate fundamental flaws in his philosophy.
The Exhibition comprises of a selection of critical writings on Heidegger’s Nazism, as well as his seminal text “Being and Time”, interposing praise for the thinker’s work as “impossible to ignore” with the anguish of Heideggarian scholars worrying how deep the roots of his fascism might truly run in his work.
A central inspiration for the exhbition is a lecture on Heidegger’s utility in the hands of Alt-Right neo-Fascists by Prof. Gregory Fried, which is a fascinating lecture on the modern urgency of understanding Heidegger’s Nazism.
Alongside the Exhibition, which features a shredder half-way through destroying a copy of Being and Time, the book itself will be reprinted, now including a preface and essays; these are intended to encourage the new Philosophy student to consider critically how Heidegger’s Nazism might indicate fundamental flaws in his philosophy.
“A Stupidity”
Brief by: NTU
Nottingham Trent University, 2023
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