Heidegger’s 1935 lament left ambiguous whether Nazis caused or cured the world’s darkening

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In 1935, he wrote miserably of ‘the darkening of the world, the flight of the gods, the destruction of the earth, the reduction of human beings to a mass, the hatred and mistrust of everything creative and free’. But this was ambiguous too: did he mean that the Nazis were responsible for this, or that the general darkening and massification of humanity had made Nazism necessary? — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 308