Numerous documents show the extent to which Heidegger's thought is imbued with the worldview - Weltanschauung - of Nazism. That Heidegger teaches, in his courses and seminars since 1933, at least three of the main National Socialist objectives - the supremacy of the originally Germanic race, the total annihilation of the inner enemy and the expansion of the vital space of the German people - is, of by itself eloquent.
As Emmanuel Faye demonstrates in this masterful investigation, Heidegger's relations with Nazism cannot be reduced to the passing raving of a man whose work deserves, moreover, admiration and esteem: Heidegger not only did not enrich philosophy, but put it in service of an abominable policy of conquest and extermination.
"In these classes and seminars, as Faye categorically demonstrates, we attend" the introduction of Nazism into philosophy ", the resoundin...read more