Rudi Dutschke, Jürgen Habermas, Martin Heidegger, and Jim Morrison

Gretchen Dutschke’s account of Rudi Dutschke and Jürgen Habermas’s exchange in the wake of Benno Ohnesorg’s murder has Habermas accusing Dutschke of voluntaristische Ideologie. In researching Geworfenheit I came upon (was thrown upon?) this Wikipedia entry:

„Into this world we’re thrown / Like a dog without a bone“. Speaking with Krieger and Manzarek, the philosopher Thomas Vollmer tells how this verse recalls Heidegger’s concept of thrownness: in 1963 at Florida State University in Tallahassee, Jim Morrison heard an influential lesson for him, where were discussed philosophers who had a critical look at the philosophical tradition, including Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger.

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