Crépon, Marc

Mutual Understanding Between Peoples (Musil, Heidegger and the Notion of "National Philosophy") - 2001.


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Heidegger and Musil, several years apart, both examined what prevented mutual understanding between various peoples. While the first found the reason to be insufficient thought about their individual historical missions (made obscure by the concepts of race and organization), the second pointed a finger at the idealization of the nation and States an unhealthy thinking that obstructs a new, original and universal "human amorphism'.