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Richard Wolin et al., « Heidegger et le nazisme », L'Homme et la société (documents), ID : 10.3406/homso.1990.2492
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Richard Wolin. The French Heidegger Debate Few events in recent memory have shaken the world of French letters as much as the appearance of Victor Farias's book, Heidegger et le Nazisme, Farias deserves credit for having ignited a long overdue debate about the taboo theme of the political dimension of Heidegger's book. But his argument about Heidegger's Nazi ties is so brazenly tendentious that, ironically, he ends up undermining his own case. Also, the book is extremely weak from a philosophical standpoint, which made it easier for the Heidegger partisans to attack it. Unlike the vulgar Heidegger apologists (Fedier, Aubenque, Cresella), the leading French Heideggerians, Jacques Derrida and Philippe Lacoue- Labarthe tried to confront the issues raised by Heidegger's Nazi past. But their interpretation, trying to distinguish the post-humanist Heidegger (after 1940) from the early one, still saturated with metaphysical residues, is only a more sophisticated strategy of denial. It leads to the illogical conclusion that it was a surfeit of humanism (later abandoned) that drove Heidegger into the Nazi camp...
