Volume 40, Number 1 & 2 · January 14, 1993
A Normal Nazi
By Thomas Sheehan
The Heidegger Controversy: A Critical Reader
edited by Richard Wolin
[formerly published by Columbia University Press] MIT Press, 305 pp., $16.95 (paper)
Martin Heidegger: Politik und Geschichte im Leben und Denken (Martin Heidegger: Politics and History in His Life and Thought)
by Ernst Nolte
Propyläen, 330 pp., 48 DM
In 1987 Victor Farías's Heidegger et le nazisme dropped like a bomb on the quiet chapel where Heidegger's disciples were gathered, and blew the place to bits. The myth Heidegger had concocted after the war—that he supported the Nazis briefly and only to protect the university—was shattered by the evidence Farías mustered of Heidegger's deep and long-lasting commitment to National Socialism, his blatant anti-Semitism, his blackballing of colleagues for no more than holding pacifist convictions, associating with Jews, or being 'unfavorably disposed' toward the Nazi regime.
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