Philosophical style itself can be judged unfree and dictatorial

Evidence

Jaspers submitted a characteristically thoughtful and balanced report that December. He concluded that Heidegger was a philosopher of the greatest importance who should be given all the university support he needed to pursue his own work — but who should not yet be allowed to teach. He wrote, ‘Heidegger’s mode of thinking, which seems to me to be fundamentally unfree, dictatorial and uncommunicative, would have a very damaging effect on students at the present time.’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 609

Categorization

• QUESTION: Worth chasing: does Jaspers’s diagnosis of Heidegger’s thinking as dictatorial/communicative-style connect to how Heidegger’s prose actually reads — density as authoritarian gesture?
• XREF: connects to: Ruling-class philosophy subordinates masses without positively transforming their thought — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1504; Modern philosophy voluntarily shrinks itself to avoid touching established reality — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man: Studies in the…, 648; Philosophical convictions require cogency, seriousness, cohesion, and democratic respect — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 9216 (+2 more)

Broader Connections

• Philosophical convictions require cogency, seriousness, cohesion, and democratic respect #responds-to (0.78) — , The Rod and the Child, 9216
• Ruling-class philosophy subordinates masses without positively transforming their thought #complicates (0.75) — Antonio Gramsci, Selections from the Prison Notebooks, 1504
• Modern philosophy voluntarily shrinks itself to avoid touching established reality #complicates (0.72) — Herbert Marcuse, One-Dimensional Man, 648