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"America and Russia are the Same": Geopolitics in Heidegger's Seinsfrage

Martin Heidegger's interest in world politics extends as far as his interest in the question of being. Consequently and inasmuch as Heidegger has developed his philosophy of being-there (Dasein), which is necessarily here, i.e., the there of a particular place, being takes shape according to its place on the earth. The event of being, its disclosure and withdrawal, is an historical one. Being so disclosed, Heidegger understands as authentic truth.² But what can being understood this way indicate regarding politics, no less geography? Actually, geography is politics for Heidegger insofar as truth is a sited, situation specific occurrence. The evidence...