Heidegger Documentary "Only a God Can Save Us" | Director Interview with Stephen Hicks

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  • čas přidán 28. 06. 2024
  • An interview with Jeffrey Van Davis, the director of the documentary, "Only A God Can Save Us." The documentary can be found at: • "Only a God Can Save U...
    Mr. Van Davis and Dr. Hicks discuss the origins of the documentary, some details about its composition, his encounters with the Heidegger family, the premiere of the documentary and more details on the life of Heidegger.
    Timestamps:
    00:00 Introduction
    01:03 How did you come to make this film?
    02:15 What drew you to Heidegger?
    03:35 Your career highlights
    05:25 Heidegger in the 1920s
    06:49 Heidegger's reputation in the 1920s
    08:40 Heidegger as a political thinker
    10:40 Heidegger's influences in 1920s
    12:50 Evidence of his awareness of Nazism in 1920s
    17:24 Nazism comes to power
    21:36 Heidegger's postwar thought and actions
    23:33 His postwar political thoughts
    26:37 How closely was his philosophy tied to Nazism
    27:32 Philosopher or cultural activist?
    28:47 The making of the film
    37:30 The release of the film
    42:40 Elfride Heidegger-the enthusiastic Nazi
    45:15 The features of the film
    47:32 The reaction of Heidegger apologists
    Stephen R. C. Hicks, Ph.D., is Professor of Philosophy at Rockford University, USA, and has had visiting positions at Georgetown University in Washington, D.C., University of Kasimir the Great in Poland, Oxford University’s Harris Manchester College in England, and Jagiellonian University in Poland.
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Komentáře • 33

  • @brettcarroll4676
    @brettcarroll4676 Před rokem +5

    Thank you for sharing! I'll be looking for this film.

  • @bbqnice1
    @bbqnice1 Před rokem +6

    this is such a good philosophy channel

  • @richardzellers
    @richardzellers Před rokem +3

    Thanks for all your posts!

  • @ansmut
    @ansmut Před rokem +9

    To claim that the reason he didn't rewrite his works after the war was because he was 'narcissistic' displays the difference between those who 'think' for money and a man whose standards of truth is beyond the reach of money.

    • @metapolitikgedanken612
      @metapolitikgedanken612 Před rokem

      Yes, to me it adds to the credit of the person, when it doesn't role where the wind is blowing, whenever the political power relations do change. And well, Heidegger was right about many things. Including Jews in many ways.

    • @OscarCuzzani
      @OscarCuzzani Před 5 měsíci +2

      I agree. I think Heidegger had a historic view of his work and perceived that his work was way ahead of his time, like Nietzsche realized too.

  • @garyedavis6486
    @garyedavis6486 Před 4 měsíci

    Stephen Hicks does a good job of evincing Davis's attitudes, which provides important context. In case the CEEE channel disappears, I hope that this interview remains available.

  • @cameronkrause4712
    @cameronkrause4712 Před rokem +4

    " I have a masters degree in Philosophy, I'm not a philosopher." I didn't know being a philosopher was so exclusive.

  • @vaughanosgan2623
    @vaughanosgan2623 Před rokem

    Superb post.....I have followed the similar tradition.......

  • @StephenHicksPhilosopher
    @StephenHicksPhilosopher Před rokem +4

    The documentary itself is here: czcams.com/video/_TEEJeyZNaM/video.html.

  • @4kassis
    @4kassis Před rokem +1

    I can think of another reason why Heidegger never spoke about National Socialism after the war: there was what I like to call national amnesia on the subject. Nobody talked about what happened right after the war - I grew up in the 50s, I remember.... there was too much pain, too many things nobody wanted to remember, so it took almost a whole generation until the subjects could be approached again.

  • @bbqnice1
    @bbqnice1 Před rokem +2

    omg dude u make a Heidegger documentary that's frank about his Nazism and the Heidegger family shows up to a packed house

  • @oldsachem
    @oldsachem Před rokem +1

    Prof. Hicks, please analyze what elements of Heidegger appear in the ideological writings of the PRC communist intellectual and official Wang Huning.

    • @StephenHicksPhilosopher
      @StephenHicksPhilosopher Před rokem

      I haven't read those works. Where's the best place to start?

    • @oldsachem
      @oldsachem Před rokem

      @@StephenHicksPhilosopher not enough to identify the work/s. One must find a trustworthy translator, I know one, but we need to transport her and her parents out of danger.

  • @timreading5005
    @timreading5005 Před rokem

    An interesting definition of the word Goal.... Please keep on banging it on napoleons card you Star spangled gypsy 👌💚💣♒

  • @ricardocima
    @ricardocima Před rokem

    Carlos V spoke german to his horse, not Frederick the Great.

    • @OscarCuzzani
      @OscarCuzzani Před 5 měsíci

      The statement is correct. Friedrich the Great spoke French and only German to peasants and horses. All his writings including his famous attack to Machiavelli, were in French.

    • @ricardocima
      @ricardocima Před 5 měsíci

      @@OscarCuzzani As king, Frederick was renowned for being a fine military strategist; but he also continued to show artistic flair in his musical compositions and his writing. He conjectured on history, tackled philosophy and penned verse - and he did so all in French, not German. When Frederick received Johann Christoph Gottsched in 1757, he is reported to have admitted that he spoke German like a coachman (‘comme un cocher’); French was Frederick’s preferred language of scholarly and literary discourse. The infamous words supposedly uttered by the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V (1500-1558) are frequently (mis)attributed to Frederick: that he spoke Spanish to God, Italian to women, French to men and German to his horse. Nevertheless, the commonly held belief that Frederick was disparaging of the German language is absolutely correct.

  • @excitingworld364
    @excitingworld364 Před 2 měsíci

    Please stop saying he is the greatest philosopher! His genius is a mirage, a case of people having convinced themselves in what has no foundation in reality!

  • @smrubelmedia
    @smrubelmedia Před rokem

    Your video is very beautiful. I like it a lot. I have been trying to talk to you for a long time. I am waiting for your response. Please give me a chance to talk to you😍

  • @OscarCuzzani
    @OscarCuzzani Před 5 měsíci

    van Davies acknowledged that his film was one sided. Pity to watch a film that didn’t recognize the merits of a thinker. Many famous artists, scientists had a dark side in their lives, we all still accept that humans are not perfect. The idea of Heidegger being narcissistic may explain his reluctance to apologize. Another element that I have missed is that Nietzsche was not mentioned. Did Heidegger neglected him because Nietzsche was pro Semitic? As we out in scientific papers, more research is needed.

  • @UnDaoDu
    @UnDaoDu Před rokem

    why is that? save us from what?

    • @robertmontgomery6256
      @robertmontgomery6256 Před rokem

      Basically he meant the modern world in general- technology especially.

  • @nicolasplagne5577
    @nicolasplagne5577 Před 8 měsíci

    Ridiculous journalism

  • @pendejo6466
    @pendejo6466 Před rokem

    I saw the documentary and was very impressed. What did Victor Farias say that was so controversial that needed to be omitted from the film?

  • @brendanmalone463
    @brendanmalone463 Před 3 měsíci

    Philosophy is the pursuit of irelavince some believe it answers the truth of being ,it's just a opinion