The publication of Martin Heidegger's Black Notebooks has confirmed some of the German philosopher's most opprobestum biographical facts, such as his faith that National Socialism could remove Germany from its political-economic, social and intellectual destitution, its anti-Semitism or its silence in the Face of the Holocaust. They are elements that make up what Jean-Luc Nancy calls Heidegger's "banality". Heidegger took the most virulent formulas in the anti-Semitic environment to integrate them into a system of thought that Jews would lead to the decline of the West.
But these formulas require a philosophical analysis that goes beyond simple condemnation. Key concepts for Heidegger such as "history", "destination", "people" or "beginning" highlight the old metaphysical itching of inaugurating, founding, being in the initial. It is worth asking whether these errors are not repeatable, if the misplaced or lack of Heidegger will not reveal the black background of Western culture where such banality continues to dwell.