In the most comprehensive examination to date of Heidegger's
Nazism, Emmanuel Faye draws on previously unavailable materials to
paint a damning picture of Nazism's influence on the philosopher's
thought and politics.
In this provocative book, Faye uses excerpts from unpublished
seminars to show that Heidegger's philosophical writings are
fatally compromised by an adherence to National Socialist ideas. In
other documents, Faye finds expressions of racism and exterminatory
anti-Semitism.
Faye disputes the view of Heidegger as a naive, temporarily
disoriented academician and instead shows him to have been a
self-appointed "spiritual guide" for Nazism whose intentionality
was clear. Contrary to what some have written, Heidegger's Nazism
became even more radical after 1935, as Faye demonstrates. He
revisits Heidegger's masterwork, "Being and Time," and concludes
that in it Heidegger does not present a philosophy of individual
existence but rather a doctrine of radical self-sacrifice, where
individualization is allowed only for the purpose of heroism in
warfare. Faye's book was highly controversial when originally
published in France in 2005. Now available in Michael B. Smith's
fluid English translation, it is bound to awaken controversy in the
English-speaking world.
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