Opinion
On The Victim, the Enemy and The Genocide
Zionism, as a highly controversial attempt to create a homogeneous nation from an ethnic multi diversity that not rests on historical reality but only myths and folk tales. A gathered community of fugitives, who have never established a connection with the land throughout history and weirds that have never been neighbors to anyone, can only find shelter in myths, not in the history. They attempt to exist by breathing life into a stoned corpse on the lands where they can not take root.
Politics and Morality
The idea that life itself is politics and that the struggle between good and evil is constantforms the foundation of Carl Schmitt’s political philosophy. On the other hand, the notion thatmorality precedes human existence, that the ‘other’ is an essential element in the constructionof the self, that it stands before us even before we establish our own identity, and that the‘other’ essentially signifies morality constitutes the core of Emanuel Levinas’ moral philosophy.
Thinking About Being in Front of Heidegger’s Hut
This question came to mind while reading Journey to Heidegger’s Hut (Heidegger’in Kulübesine Yolculuk), İbrahim Kalın’s book about his 2019 visit to Heidegger’s hut in Todtnauberg—a visit whose introduction, as those interested will already know, was partially published earlier. In particular, it arose while reading the sections that explore the relationship between Being and representation, summarized as follows: “What we describe with words and concepts”—and of course, this includes the word or concept Being—“is not Being itself, but its representation in language and thought”
