Arendt and Sartre independently deemed Heidegger lacking in character rather than bad

Evidence

It wasn’t that Heidegger had a bad character, Hannah Arendt wrote to Jaspers in 1949; it was that he had no character. Sartre said a very similar thing in an essay of 1944, speaking of Heidegger’s Nazism: ‘Heidegger has no character; there’s the truth of the matter.’ It is as if there was something about everyday human life that the great philosopher of everydayness did not get. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 307

Categorization

• XREF: Finely tuned irony—‘philosopher of everydayness’ who missed everyday life—echoes the ambiguity theme throughout the book. — connects to: Heidegger appeared to lack character rather than possess bad character — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 307

Broader Connections

• Heidegger appeared to lack character rather than possess bad character #corroborates (0.95) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 307