Heavy but interesting

Martin Heidegger, as we know, sest clearly compromised by becoming a member of the Nazi party from 1933 to 1944. But his sycophants had beautiful game dexpliquer if the implication policy of "greatest philosopher of the twentieth century" was unfortunately proven, his thoughts remained virgin any link with dHitler ideas. Besides his courses were even the opportunity for him to make philosophical act of resistance. And all this, of course, not to mention its many Jewish students (Levinas, Arendt, etc.) that he vowed eternal gratitude for having introduced the delicate work of thought.

But Emmanuel Faye, through a heavy test alas, challenges this view. Having had access to unpublished seminars from 1933 to 1935, Faye demonstrates citations supporting quHeidegger was totally compromised. Quil put his thoughts lHitlérisme service and, worse, his major concepts (Being, Being, etc.) were actually conceived at this time to give Nazism a "philosophical" basis.

Unfortunately, despite the real interest and about the very serious work that Faye, one can dispose dune feeling sick from reading what looks like a settling of accounts. Faye seems to devote a solid hatred Heidegger and be ready to leave everything to lenfoncer sometimes extrapolate quotes that seem very innocent forced interpretations.

Moreover, how not to smile lorsquon bed penned by Faye as reading dHeidegger without critical apparatus and without historical information, may lead some in the arms of neo-Nazi or Holocaust denial. At this point one wonders if Faye still has minimal recoil. Heidegger is for a philosophical elite and this is definitely not a writer extreme right practice. And the mere idea of ​​a student becoming a philosophizing dHitler worshiper after reading Heidegger parity difficult to believe Finally, one wonders why there should urgently settle accounts Heidegger while philosophers significantly compromise it (Sartre only not name him) remain protected from virtually any criticism, and that the rest neo-Nazis and Holocaust deniers claim to more than Marx's philosophy than that dHeidegger. In short, despite everything that is wrong in the words and ideas of Faye nen remains that his essay BE deserves read by anyone that dHeidegger philosopher attracts.