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Abstract My essay positions Heidegger’s Black Notebooks ( Schwarze Hefte ) in the light of the later transformation of his thought after die Kehre , which introduces a new motif: “the withdrawal of Being.” And while the Jewish question disappears from his official discourse, the essay poses it nonetheless, despite and against Heidegger’s silence: Does the diagnosis from the Black Notebooks , which perceives the Jew as the agent of metaphysical destruction, still stand? In my analysis, the figurative Jew emerges in a role which Heidegger refuses to recognize: as a positive agent of letting-be, acting in accordance with Being’s rhythm of self-withdrawal.
Agata Bielik‐Robson (Wed,) studied this question.