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NOTES

1. See, for example, Paul Morrison, The Poetics of Fascism: Ezra Pound, T. S. Eliot, Paul de Man (New York: Oxford University Press, 1996); Adam Gopnik, “The Get-Ready Man [on Cioran],” The New Yorker (June 19 and 26, 2000), 172-80; Tom Rockmore and Joseph Margolis, eds., The Heidegger Case: On Philosophy and Politics (Philadelphia, Penn.: Temple University Press, 1992); and Steven Ungar, Scandal and Aftereffect: Blanchot and France since 1930 (Minneapolis: University of Minnesota Press, 1995).

North American analytic philosophy has not been immune to similar scrutiny. See John McCumber's Time in the Ditch: American Philosophy and the McCarthy Era (Evanston, 111.: Northwestern University Press, 2001).

2. Richard Wolin, “Untruth and Method: Nazism and the Complicities of Hans-Georg Gadamer,” The New Republic (May 15, 2000): 36-45. See also the Internationale Zeitschrift fur Philosophic i (2001), which is entitled Schwerpunhtthema: Hermeneutih

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und Politih in Deutschland vor und nach 1933- For some helpful corrections to Wolin's article, see Richard E. Palmer, “A Response to Richard Wolin on Gadamer and the Nazis,” International Journal of Philosophical Studies 10.4 (2002): 467-82. See also “The real Nazis had no interest at all in us …, ” an interview with Doerte von West-ernhagen in Gadamer in Conversation, ed. and trans. Richard E. Palmer (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2001), 115-32.

3. Teresa Orozco, Platonische Gewalt: Gadamers politische Hermeneutik der NS-Zeit (Berlin: Argument Verlag, 1995).

4. Stanley Rosen, “Man's Hope,” The Public Realm: Essays on Discursive Types in Political Philosophy, ed. Reiner Schiirmann (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1989)-44

5. An unfortunately typical but concise example of the ways in which scholars of philosphical hermeneutics treat the issue can be found on the dust jacket of the English translation of Jean Grondin's Hans-Georg Gadamer: A Biography (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 2003): “[Gadamer] chose to remain in his native Germany in the 1930-5, neither supporting Hitler nor actively opposing him, but negotiating instead an unpolitical position that allowed him to continue his philosophical work.” The section of this collection called “Gadamer in Question” asks of such scholars of philosophical hermeneutics how they continue to negotiate an unpolitical position that allows them to continue their philosophical work.

6. James Risser, Hermeneutics and the Voice of the Other: Re-Reading Gadamer's Philosophical Hermeneutics (Albany: State University of New York Press, 1997), 241.

7. Georgie Warnke, “Pace Wolin,” International Zeitschrift fur Philosophie i (2001): 77.

8. Gerald L. Bruns, Hermeneutics Ancient and Modern (New Haven, Conn.: Yale University Press, 1992), 204.

9. Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hermeneutische Entwiirfe. Vortrage und Aufsafe (Tubingen: MohrSiebeck, 2000), 134.