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Faye, Emmanuel. Heidegger: the Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy. Trans. Michael B. Smith. New Haven: Yale UP, 2009. How serious a Nazi was Martin Heidegger, how long did he maintain his Nazi convictions and how should the answers to those questions affect his status as one of the towering thinkers of the 20th century? His political history has produced waves of controversy among his fellow philosophers in the last 65 years. It's resurfaced through an angry, dense and difficult book, Heidegger: The Introduction of Nazism into Philosophy (Yale University Press), by Emmanuel Faye, a professor at the University of Rouen. It was first published in France and now appears in an English translation. Admirers of Heidegger (1889-1976) passionately defend their hero. They admit that in 1933 he greeted the rise of Hitler with enthusiasm, proclaimed Nazi beliefs while serving for a year as rector at the University of Freiburg and described Hitler as the embodiment of the German soul. But, his supporters claim, that was merely a phase that ended when he resigned his position as rector. Alasdair MacIntyre of Notre Dame University, a major voice in moral philosophy, typically called Heidegger's time as a Nazi "a short period." His blunder, the pro-Heidegger people say, should not obscure his greatness. That opinion seemed to make sense for decades, with the assistance of Heidegger's own carefully obscure accounts of his politics, delivered in a disdainful this-nonsense-is-beneath-me style. Major figures across the West, most famously Jean-Paul Sartre, built their reputations on versions of Heidegger's thinking. But in the last two decades a series of books have revealed that he was a much more deeply involved Nazi than many believed, that he kept the faith until the end of the Second World War and that he never got around to disowning his mistakes -- if, in fact, he considered them mistakes. Emmanuel Faye goes much further. He says Heidegger was not a philosopher who for a time became a Nazi; he was a philosopher of Nazism. His adherence to it was not an error but a natural outgrowth of his own thinking. Like Hitler, Heidegger was an enemy of the belief in reason and humanity that sustains philosophy. Heidegger and Hitler were a perfect fit. Read the rest here: http://www.nationalpost.com/opinion/columnists/story.html?id=eb735e29-c7be-4840-9ad1-bb22c5d60549.