Graduate School with Heidegger
Greg Johnson
San Francisco: Counter-Currents Publishing, 2020
220 pages
About Graduate School with Heidegger
Greg Johnson’s Graduate School with Heidegger is unique in the vast literature on Heidegger. Written by a self-proclaimed “failed academic” for intelligent laymen, these essays and lectures serve as a non-systematic, non-technical introduction to the twentieth century’s most influential and difficult philosopher.
Johnson explains essential concepts like phenomenology, metaphysics, and nihilism. He defines technical terms like Being, the clearing, and the event. He discusses Heidegger’s relationships to Nietzsche, Husserl, and Evola. He explores the roots of Heidegger’s nationalist and ecological politics. He responds to the Heidegger interpretations of Thomas Sheehan, Richard Polt, Ronald Beiner, Alexander Dugin, John Caputo, and Richard Rorty. Finally, he recommends Heidegger’s many lecture courses as a graduate-level education in philosophy, free of the staggering cost and stifling conformity of contemporary academia.
“All sorts of readers will appreciate Greg Johnson’s lively, unpretentious, and accessible presentations of Heidegger’s thought. Johnson gives due credit to the best academic commentators on Heidegger. But there is one decisive respect in which Johnson departs from mainstream scholars and proves to be a far superior guide to Heidegger’s thought: his bold, open-minded, and honest treatment of all matters related to Heidegger’s politics.”—Anonymous Heidegger Scholar, from the Foreword
“A dangerous mind”—Ronald Beiner, author of Dangerous Minds: Nietzsche, Heidegger, & the Return of the Far Right
Contents
Foreword by an Anonymous Heidegger Scholar – iii
Preface – v
Being & Beyond
1. Heidegger Without Being – 1
2. What Is Phenomenology? – 7
3. What Is Metaphysics? – 17
4. Heidegger’s Question Beyond Being – 29
5. Making Sense of Heidegger – 49
6. The Gods of the Forest – 81
7. Nietzsche, Metaphysics, & Nihilism – 95
8. Letting Heidegger Be Heidegger – 106
Heidegger & Politics
10. Heidegger & Ethnic Nationalism – 115
11. Richard Polt’s Time & Trauma – 128
12. Ronald Beiner’s Dangerous Minds – 145
13. Dugin on Heidegger – 160
14. Notes on Heidegger & Evola – 170
Heidegger & Higher Education
15. Graduate School with Heidegger – 176
Recommended Reading – 189
Index – 201
About the Author – 210
About the Author
Greg Johnson, Ph.D., is the author of thirteen books, including Confessions of a Reluctant Hater; New Right vs. Old Right; Truth, Justice, & a Nice White Country; In Defense of Prejudice; The White Nationalist Manifesto; Toward a New Nationalism; From Plato to Postmodernism; and It’s Okay to Be White.