Yes I am a petrified revolutionary
(though I do not think modern art
so revolutionary). And Clive Bell was
not so wrong, even if he did disastrous–
ly over-simplify his thesis and fail, per–
haps, to understand it completely him–
self. In matters of art I prefer any
day to stand with the generation of
1905-1920 rather than with Mr. Grig–
son's and my own, even at the cost of
being a simpleton and an old phono–
graph record.
Clement Greenberg
HEIDEGGER'S RECORD
Sirs:
"I read the report,
"On
Meeting A
Philosopher" in P.R. (April 1948).
I, also, have met this "philosopher"
-have met him many a time: In the
lecture room, in the home of his Jewish
teacher and sponsor, Edmund Husser!,
in the large auditorium where he had
assembled the whole University teach–
ing staff from the youngest assistant
to the oldest "Geheimrat," I have met
him later in the little Black Forest vil–
lage of Todtnauberg, and, finally, I
met him "by correspondence" some
time before I left the Third Reich.
One could not call all these oc–
casions "meeting a philosopher," but I
do not hesitate to admit that they con–
tributed to my thinking; and, accept–
ing the statement that "the proper
study of mankind is man," Herr Hei–
degger has certainly given me some op–
portunity to indulge in such study.
In the lecture room the then young
Privatdozent Heidegger was-as it is
only too befitting-a keen and some–
times rather overzealous exponent of
his master's "Phenomenology." In Hus–
scrl's home he was the devoted and at–
tentive assistant to a man who in his
great kindness and tolerance was even
beyond reprimanding Heideggcr's "hu-
anti-semite
and Jew
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