Relay-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site utzoo.UUCP Posting-Version: version B 2.10 5/3/83; site bbncca.ARPA Path: utzoo!linus!bbncca!rrizzo From: rrizzo@bbncca.ARPA (Ron Rizzo) Newsgroups: net.politics,net.religion Subject: Re: Islam (long but not propaganda) Message-ID: <1515@bbncca.ARPA> Date: Wed, 7-Aug-85 13:10:29 EDT Article-I.D.: bbncca.1515 Posted: Wed Aug 7 13:10:29 1985 Date-Received: Thu, 8-Aug-85 01:38:57 EDT References: <5690@cbscc.UUCP> Organization: Bolt, Beranek and Newman, Cambridge, Ma. Lines: 20 Xref: linus net.politics:9645 net.religion:6922 Why are Camus & Sartre mentioned as sources of nazi ideology or ideas for hitler's writings or speeches? Simple chronology makes it nearly impossible. hitler's "My Struggle" (Mein Kampf) was published in the 1920s; nazi ideology was fully formed by the time they assumed power. Sartre studied with Heidegger in 1938 for a year or so. Nearly all Sartre's & Camus' writings date from the 1940s on. Only some unpolitical philosophical essays (Sartre) & juvenilia & reviews (Camus) were written in the 1930s. Maybe Heidegger is the source intended: an ex-Jesuit whose works on metaphysics are seminal for 20th century existentialism, Martin Heidegger joined the nazi party in 1933 and was nazi rector of the University of Freiburg from 1933-1936. But Heidegger's abstruse & obscure essays supply no political ideas; only his nazi party affiliation & public pronouncements as a nazi official could have provided any fodder for hitler. Ron Rizzo