If one sifts through Heidegger’s writing in this way, a good detective will find much that suggests, if not Nazism in particular, then at least some longing for conservative revolution. But what works for the detective turns reductive when applied to the interpretation of philosophical texts. A great many philosophers, after all, wrote distasteful things and supported brutal regimes. Aristotle defended slavery. Kant’s writings contain passages that we would not hesitate to characterize today as racist. A philosopher’s politics are not the best measure for the legitimacy of his ideas; nor should knowledge of his intentions, political or otherwise, inhibit us from seeking new instruction in his work. - Heidegger in Blackнет ли в этом...
и далее But the black notebooks may nonetheless help us to understand how a philosopher consumed with a question of such generality could come to see in the Third Reich a realization of his own ideas. ... “Let not propositions and ‘ideas’ be the rules of your Being [Sein]. The Führer alone is the present and future German reality and its law.” - ого!
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