Keenan, John. "Heidegger, Hitler's 'Spiritual Guide.'" GUARDIAN January 20, 2010.

Martin Heidegger is widely regarded as the most influential and important philosopher of the 20th century. His most famous work, Being and Time, is a cornerstone of philosophical study, while his anti-technological and romantic pastoral views continue to strike a chord with environmental campaigners. Heidegger was also an enthusiastic Nazi whose political views, if disseminated in plain English on a street corner in this country, would result in an arrest for hate crime. Emmanuel Faye's book Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy, published in the UK this week, demonstrates that the philosopher's foul beliefs were not aberrations; they were the soil from which his philosophy grew. . . . Read the rest here: http://www.guardian.co.uk/commentisfree/2010/jan/20/martin-heidegger-nazi-hitler.