The political tonality in Heidegger's critique of subjectivity

Abstract

This article discusses how, through the criticism of the metaphysics of subjectivity, Heidegger's philosophy acquires a political tone. Heidegger's criticism on the metaphysics of subjectivity occupies a central spot in his critique on the history of Western thought. When such criticism reaches, in its historical evolution, the 20th century, Heidegger concludes that we are engendering in the age of technique, which would bring within harmful consequences as long as the metaphysics of subjectivity is continued and not overcome. Therefore, the Heideggerian discourse on to the technique and the subject, starting in 1930, starts to assume, influenced by Ernst's philosophy Jünger philosophy, a political tone that will appear in several moments of the Heideggerian thought until 1970. With such discourse, his historical-metaphysical critique of subjectivity takes on a political tone and exposes, in addition to atomic wars, the mechanisms of subjectivity and technique of extermination fields and production logic. Rather configuring the rise of a political tonality in the author's thought than a political philosophy, this political tone constitutes the most crucial moment of the Heideggerian criticism on the metaphysics of subjectivity, so that appears as its codependent and points out the significant consequences of not overcoming its subject.