Peter Trawny, “The Universal and Annihilation: Heidegger’s Being-Historical Anti-Semitism”: Heidegger's Black Notebooks: Responses to Anti-Semitism

Universal topography—a virtual landscape, formed by universal features, unfolded in universal terms. Production and transport, information and value are conditions of this universal space, where people can act without the particular restraints of nationality, race, or sex. There is no universal topography without democratic ideas of basic equality, rationality, and transparency. It is manifest in universal institutions: the UN with its base in New York, for example, is a necessary institution of universal topography.