National Socialism continues to prove rebellious to the procedures of political and ideological analysis. Deep down, it remains simply "inexplicable" and, in this sense, it never ceases to haunt modern consciousness as something like a "possible" forever in potentiality, at once reserved and imminent in our societies. And it is that National Socialism was not presented at any time as a determined policy [...], but as the truth of the political. As such, it exposed to the light of day, only to immediately obscure it, the non-political essence of the political, something that no "politology" or political philosophy is capable of achieving.
But if this essence of the political must be sought from the side of art, neither can any aesthetics or philosophy of art undo the inextricable bond that exists between art and the political. And this because its categories, practically all from Platonism, have as their principle the dominant presupposition in this entire tradition, that the political ("religion") is the truth of art. This is why Heidegger, while his project of the 1930s explicitly sought an "overcoming" of aesthetics, grants us privileged access—and perhaps the only possible access—to the essence of the political that National Socialism jointly veils and reveals. .

Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe