Heidegger's Crisis: Philosophy and Politics in Nazi Germany (review)

What is it about?

Edler shows how Martin Heidegger in his rectoral address and elsewhere tried to appropriate Nazi terminology and translate it into his own understanding of what he thought would be a second revolution.

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Why is it important?

Heidegger did not believe in the biological racism of Nazi ideology, but he thought a second revolution "from below" would bring about a rejuvenation of the German Volk.