ABSTRACT
Dread because Martin Heidegger stands as both accused and accuser. Accused for his unquestionably anti-Semitic remarks and his endorsement of National Socialism, all brought to a head again by the publication in 2014 of his so-called Black Notebooks from 1931 to 1941. Dominick LaCapra sees the 'limit event' of the Holocaust differently, as an extreme trauma that makes third person writing by historians unsuitable. Heidegger doubted whether dwelling in wonder could be started, let alone sustained. Nonetheless, his writing shows persistence with the idea that this disposition is needed if we are to begin to un-home our notions of being. Banality arises when we relinquish responsibility and act without thinking or even remembering. We forget to think of others and to treat them with respect, as ends in themselves. Siobhan Kattago sees in Arendt's visions of metaphysics, epistemology and politics the restoration of 'wonder to the political realm of appearance, opinion, and plurality'.
