>Wait a second -- this may make some sense in the German context,
About the german context I rediscovered in the libary a quite informative book: "Conceptual misreadings: The US-Reception of Heidegger's Thought" by George Leaman. Written ad the end of the eighties it was translated and published in german in 1993. The book gives a detailed survey of the academic philosophy in Germany and the NS-engagement of the majority of the professors, based on the official records in the Berlin Document Center and other archival sources. This is the background for situating the work a Heidegger as a special case of a nationalsocialist philosophy, confirming Bourdieus analysis of Heideggers work in the discourse of the so called "conservative revolution" after WWI.
Of course there were other ways to form a Nazi-philosophy, starting from many parts of philosophical tradition: from Plato to Kant, Fichte and Hegel (Carl Schmitt, Hermann Glockner).
What is not analysed by Bourdieu and Leaman is the relationsship between this disourse and the engagment of students in the "Free Corps"-movement, wich took part in the fights in baltic countries, against poland and fought socialdemocrats, communists and the whole Weimarian democracy in the years 1918-1923. It was one of the sources of the nationalsocialist movement, especially the leadership of the SA and SS.
Sebastian
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