Heidegger
The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy, in Light of the Unpublished
Seminars of 1933-1935
Emmanuel Faye; Translated by Michael B. Smith; Foreword by Tom
Rockmore
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this provocative book, Faye uses excerpts from unpublished seminars to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 naïve, 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=2
0only 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.
Emmanuel Faye
is associate professor at the University Paris Ouest–Nanterre La
Défense and an authority on Descartes. He lives in Paris. Michael B.
Smith is professor emeritus of French and philosophy at Berry College
and the translator of numerous philosophical works into English. He
lives in Riverdale, NY.
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