Heidegger combined nostalgia for simple natural life with complicity in accelerating technological power.

Evidence

Like Habermas, Adorno criticized Heidegger’s genteel aversion to science, which merely served to confirm its omnipotence. He criticized Heidegger’s aversion to the world of motorways and modern technology, and his way of offering `comfort for the heart’ that relieved him of any need to criticize reality. Adorno, like Habermas, emphasized the way in which Heidegger perpetuated the fatal syndrome that had been typical of the Nazi period: a glorifying of the simple, natural life, combined with ruthless acceleration both of the process of concentrating economic power and of technological development. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 626

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ account of Heidegger’s political entanglement and the Institute’s analysis of fascism’s nature-mysticism. — connects to: Heidegger located technological salvation in recovering a forgotten origin from the past — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 585; Heidegger contrasted traditional farming with modern technology as unforced versus forced extraction of nature — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 581; Heidegger’s forest imagery grounded his thinking throughout his life — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 179 (+1 more)
• SEED: Article angle: how the ‘comfort for the heart’ critique of Heidegger anticipates later critiques of tech-utopian nostalgia politics.
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Heidegger located technological salvation in recovering a forgotten origin from the past — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 585; Heidegger contrasted traditional farming with modern technology as unforced versus forced extraction of nature — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 581; Heidegger’s forest imagery grounded his thinking throughout his life — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 179 (+1 more)

Broader Connections

• Heidegger’s anti-modernism masked complicity with capitalist acceleration #corroborates (0.97) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 2504
• Heidegger located technological salvation in recovering a forgotten origin from the past #complicates (0.72) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 585