Heidegger retreated into mythic thinking after the Third Reich vulgarized his elitism.

Evidence

Heidegger, disappointed by the vulgarization under the Third Reich of the élitism he favoured, had disassociated himself from social praxis, from science, and even from philosophy, and had retreated into the role of mythical thinker. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 625

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to the earlier chapters’ Heidegger-Habermas rupture over the unrepentant 1953 republication of the 1935 lecture. — connects to: Heidegger’s Nazi past and obscure late prose drove away former admirers — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 603; Heidegger’s ‘turn’ moved his thought toward receptivity and away from resoluteness. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 310; Postmodernists enabled misuse of their ideas by retreating into subtlety — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 249
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Heidegger’s Nazi past and obscure late prose drove away former admirers — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 603; Heidegger’s ‘turn’ moved his thought toward receptivity and away from resoluteness. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 310; Postmodernists enabled misuse of their ideas by retreating into subtlety — Lee McIntyre, Post-Truth, 249