For Work / Against Work
Debates on the centrality of work

References for Theme: The Call to the Labor Service [1934]

  • Heidegger, Martin; Wolin, Richard
    • The Heidegger controversy: A critical reader (1992)
      (p.53) [Complete article written by Heidegger for the Freiburger Studentenzeitung]-The Call to the Labor Service (January 23, 1934) -The new path that is being followed by the education of our German young men [Jungmannschaft] leads through the Labor Service. -Such service provides the basic experience of hardness, of closeness to the soil and to the implements of labor, of the rigorous law that governs the simplest physical-and thus essential-tabor in a group. -Such service provides the basic experience of daily existence in a  camp community, an existence that is strictly ordered according to the require-ments of the tasks that the group has undertaken. -Such service...
    • The Heidegger controversy: A critical reader (1992)
      (p.54) [Excerpt of article written by Heidegger for the Freiburger Studentenzeitung]-The Call to the Labor Service (January 23, 1934) -There is only one single German "estate" [" Lebensstand'']. That is the estate of labor [Arbeitsstand] which is rooted in and borne by the Volk and which has freely submitted to the historical will of the State. The character of this estate is being pre-formed in the National Socialist Workers' Party movement. A call to the Labor Service is being sounded.
    • The Heidegger controversy: A critical reader (1992)
      (p.55) [Complete Speech, Given by Heidegger at Freiburg University to 6oo beneficiaries of the National Socialist "labor service" (Arbeitsdienst) program . Published in Der Alemann: Kampfblatt der Nationalsocialisten Oberbadms, February 1, 1934]-National Socialist Education (January 22, 1934):-German Volksgenossen! German Workers! -As Rector of the University, I cordially welcome you to our institution. This welcome will at the same time be the beginning of our work together. Let us start by understanding clearly the significance of the fact that you, for whom the City of Freiburg has created jobs by emergency decree, are coming together with us in the largest lecture hall of the...
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