Heidegger’s Nazi involvement remained a recurring French intellectual scandal

Evidence

That a great twentieth-century philosopher (who has incidentally inspired the deconstructionism of Derrida) should so compromise himself politically has been a matter of considerable concern (a concern that has erupted once more into the status of <scandal’ in France as the result of Farias’s (1987) documentation of Heidegger’s rather long-lasting Nazi links). — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1311

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Heidegger retained Nazi sympathies well after his rectorate resignation — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 298; Heidegger’s Nazi past made acknowledging existentialism’s German origins awkward for both France and America — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 555; Political scandal prevented personal contact between Sartre and Heidegger — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 643 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Heidegger hid career-damaging political judgments behind claims of truthfulness #expands (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 300
• Arendt excused Heidegger’s Nazism with the Thales metaphor of an unworldly thinker #complicates (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 950