References for Theme: National Socialist Education [1934]
- Heidegger, Martin; Wolin, Richard
- The Heidegger controversy: A critical reader (1992)
(p.56) [Excerpt from National Socialist Education (January 22, 1934)]-The creation of work must, first of all, make the unemployed and jobless Volksgenosse again capable of existing [daseinsfiihig] in the State and for the State and thereby capable of existing for the Volk as a whole. [...] Everyone of our Volk who is employed must know for what reason and to what purpose he is where he is. lt is only through this living and ever-present knowledge that his life will be rooted in the Volk as a whole, and in its destiny. Providing this knowledge is thus a necessary part of the creation...
- The Heidegger controversy: A critical reader (1992)
(p.57) [Excerpt from National Socialist Education (January 22, 1934)]-What, therefore, is the significance of the fact that you are assembled here in the auditorium of the University with us? This fact is a sign that a new, common will exists, the will to build a living bridge between the worker of the "hand" and the worker of the "head." Today, the will to bridge this gap is no longer a project that is doomed to failure. And why not? Because the whole of our German reality has been changed by the National Socialist State, with the result that our whole past...
- The Heidegger controversy: A critical reader (1992)
(p.58) [Excerpt from National Socialist Education (January 22, 1934)]-In its essence, the knowledge of true Wissenschaft does not differ at all from the knowledge of the farmer, woodcutter, the miner, the artisan. For knowledge means: to know one's way around in the world into which we are placed, as a community and as individuals. [...] We no longer distinguish between the "educated" and the "uneducated." And not because these are both the same, but because we no longer tie our estimation of a person to this distinction. We do, on the other hand, differentiate between genuine knowledge and pseudo-knowledge. Genuine knowledge is...
- The Heidegger controversy: A critical reader (1992)
(p.59) [Excerpt from National Socialist Education (January 22, 1934)]-Like these words "knowledge" and "Wissenschaft," the words "worker'' and "work," too, have a transformed meaning and a new sound. The "worker" is not, as Marxism claimed, a mere object of exploitation. The workers [Arbeiterstand] are not the class of the disinherited who are rallying for the general class struggle. But labor is also not simply the production of goods for others. Nor is labor simply the occasion and the means to earn a living. Rather: For us, "work" is the title of every well-ordered action that is borne by the responsibility of...
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