Heidegger framed national destiny as existential response to modernity’s crisis

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All this implies that this nation, as a historical nation, must move itself and thereby the history of the West beyond the centre of their future <happening’ and into the primordial realm of the powers of being. If the great decision regarding Europe is not to bring annihilation, that decision must be made in terms of new spiritual energies unfolding historically from out of the centre. — David Harvey, The Condition of Postmodernity, 1307

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• XREF: connects to: Heidegger blamed America and the USSR for a centuries-long planetary destruction. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 571; Heidegger’s anti-modernism masked complicity with capitalist acceleration — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2504; Heidegger’s existentialism jettisoned concrete social analysis for heroic fatalism