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Thesis Eleven, Vol. 35, No. 1, 84-91 (1993)
DOI: 10.1177/072551369303500107
© 1993 Thesis Eleven Pty, Ltd., SAGE Publications

Encountering the Alien in the Heidegger Affair: Some Reflections in Response To Barry Hindess

Keith Ansell-Pearson

There is a pressing need to think the Heidegger affair. There are several states of urgency, and thus the affair is not the exclusive province of the political or politics. There is an urgency of thought.1

A union of state and philosophy can make sense only if philosophy promises to be unconditionally useful to the state, that is to say, to set usefulness to the state higher than the truth. It would be splendid of course for the state if it also had truth in its pay and service; but the state itself well knows that it is part of the essence of truth that it never accepts pay or stands in anyone's service. 2


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