Wait a second -- Heidegger's repudiation could not have been part of a attempt to gain readmission to society, since his statement was made to Der Spiegel, in an interview to be published only after his death.
--- On Wed, 7/9/08, Marvin Gandall <marvgandall at videotron.ca> wrote:
> Apart from a few die-hards, which ex-Nazis didn't
> "repudiate" Hitler's
> "errors"? It's the price of readmission to
> society, a common ritual demanded
> of losers by victors. You won't have too search far in
> Iraq today for old
> Saddam sycophants more than willing to repudiate their
> Ba'athist past in
> order to pursue their careers.
>