In this episode we read section 15 and parts of section 16 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and discuss what the “philosophy of a people” is, how that philosophy must belong to “its first, essential beginning” so as to keep the people from being “led into a distorted essence by an alleged people,” and how the question of “whether and when and how we belong to being” is the question at the heart of the meditation that generates philosophy. We close with a discussion of the new corrective, benign racialism and how it is the opposite of “the grounding of the truth of selfhood” to which Heidegger’s text so exquisitely suggests a path.

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