For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

Theme Theme: Heidegger Citations → Being and Truth [1933]

Theme: Being and Truth [1933]

  • Heidegger, Martin
    • Being and Truth (2010)
      (p.162) [Extract from Lecture On 30 January 1933: Kolbenheyer] - We are grateful for the role that spiritual workers of this sort play in life, for they are doing nothing but bringing to light a perhaps unintended justification of the most trite reactionary position. The facts demonstrate it: the weightiest objection to the speech and the clearest sign of how questionable it is, is the deafening applause that I do not begrudge Herr Kolbenheyer. 8. Whoever has experienced and grasped even the slightest part of the new German reality that stands before us must already know after Kolbenheyer’s first sentences how...
    • Being and Truth (2010)
      (p.166) Only insofar as Being is care does a way of Being become possible such as resoluteness, labor, heroism, and so on. But because man has these  possibilities,  he  also  has,  on  the  other  side,  the  possibilities  of innocuousness,  busy-ness,  cowardice,  slavery,  money-grubbing,  and so  on.  These  are  not,  as  it  were,  regrettable  additions.  Only  where there  is  busy-ness  is  there  labor.  Only  on  the  basis  of  this  Being  (as care) is man a historical entity. Care is the condition of possibility for man’s ability to be a political entity.
    • Being and Truth (2010)
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