Heidegger on the Frontline: Metapolitics, Gathering, Education

Abstract

The paper deals with Heidegger private notes on the nature and extent of his own political engagement, which were published in 2014 as the first part of his so¬called “black notebooks”. With the help of the notion of “metapolitics”, which in Heidegger’s otherwise vast opus appears only here, nature, ambivalence and Heidegger’s personal messianism of his spiritual¬political project are outlined. It is conditioned, on one hand by political action of the national¬socialist project, while on the other it negates the political as something essential of spiritual¬political leadership and at the same time insists on the gathering of spiritual forces that will lead the German nation to a metapolitical constitution of the future of human survival in the world.