Postwar reception of a philosopher’s work tracks perceived political distance from Nazism.

Evidence

(The obscurity into which Freyer’s laying of the foundations for sociology fell after 1945the book was only reprinted for the first time in 1964can largely be explained by the fact that, like Heidegger, he had at first seen the Nazi movement as offering a potential existential renewal, and that, in spite of his reservations about it, he never showed that he had distanced himself from fascism, even after 1945. But since the same set of circumstances did not, in Heidegger’s case, cause Being and Time to be forgotten, another factor may have been at work. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 605

Categorization

• XREF: Connects to Heidegger’s Nazism as a theme in the intellectual history of the Frankfurt School. — connects to: Heidegger’s Nazi incrimination enhanced rather than damaged his postwar academic reputation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 472
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Heidegger’s Nazi incrimination enhanced rather than damaged his postwar academic reputation. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 472