>
>As to Naziism, well, Heidegger was a pretty weird Nazi. He was not a
>vehement anto-Semite or even a racist, for that matter.
But as Rektor he did purge the Jewish professors, dumped Husserl, etc. He'd fuck Jews, especially if they were cute and smart, like the young Hannah Arendt, but he followed the line.
(It's notable that, when H starts talking about the
>"German spirit," he always contrasts in with the US and the USSR, not the
>Jews or for that matter any ethnic group.)
Yeah, but he let stand that shit about "the inner greatness of our movement" in Intro to Metaphysics . . .
>
>H belongs to the "Decline of the West" anti-democratic, reactionary
>movement
>associated with Spengler, Ortega y Gasset, Ernst Junger, Yeats and Pound,
>which believed that WWI had shown that Western civilization is ineluctably
>decrepit and in need of a complete overhaul.
Lots of Nazis were of this sort, including Carl Schmitt, though hewas more active nihilist tahn the world-weary passive nihilsit (Nietzsche's terms).
At bottom, I think Heidegger was not a Nazi, though certainly a
>Fascist (note that these are not synonymous terms).
AT least as much as Lukacs was a Communist. . . .
>
>There is a letter somewhere from someone pretty high up in the Nazi
>hierarchy reading, "We have to keep an eye out for Herr Doktor Heidegger.
>He
>subscribes to a version of National Socialism that exists only in his own
>mind."
>
Probably there are such letters in the Stalinist archives about Lukacs,
jks
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