Heidegger’s philosophy cannot be separated from its problematic elements

Evidence

Heidegger’s philosophy forms a dense, complicated whole in which every aspect depends on every other. If you try to remove everything unpleasant from Being and Time, the structure collapses. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 305

Categorization

• DEEPTHINKING: The radioactive-waste metaphor for excising dangerous ideas while keeping the rest is a genuinely thought-provoking framing of how to read morally compromised thinkers — applicable well beyond Heidegger.
• XREF: Ties to the broader question of how to read Wagner, Celine, Pound and other tainted canon figures — the ‘separate art from artist’ debate. — connects to: Heidegger and Sartre may not be existentialism’s most consequential thinkers — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 107; Arendt remained deeply ambivalent about Heidegger throughout her life — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 949; Heidegger’s authentic-versus-inauthentic distinction left politics to heroic fatalism without causes — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 412 (+4 more)
• SEED: An essay angle: ‘the radioactive-waste problem’ — when a body of thought is so interwoven that you cannot surgically remove the poison, what do you do with the whole?