Heidegger : the introduction of Nazism into philosophy in light of the unpublished seminars of 1933-1935 / Emmanuel Faye ; translated by Michael B. Smith ; foreword by Tom Rockmore.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 411-429) and index.

Before 1933: Heidegger's radicalism, the destruction of the philosophical tradition, and the call to Nazism -- Heidegger, the "bringing into line," and the new student law -- Work camps, the health of the people, and the hard race in the lectures and speeches of 1933-1934 -- The courses of 1933-1935: from the question of man to the affirmation of the people and the German race -- Heidegger's Hitlerism in the seminar On the essence and concepts of nature, history, and state -- Heidegger, Carl Schmitt, and Alfred Baeumler: the struggle against the enemy and his extermination -- Law and race: Erik Wolf between Heidegger, Schmitt, and Rosenberg -- Heidegger and the longevity of the Nazi state in the unpublished seminar on Hegel and the state -- From the justification of racial selection to the ontological negationism of the Bremen lectures.

In the most comprehensive examination to date of Heidegger's Nazism, Emmanuel Faye draws on previously unavailable materials to paint a damning picture of Nazism's influence on the philosopher's thought and politics. In this provocative book, Faye uses excerpts from unpublished seminars to show that Heidegger's philosophical writings are fatally compromised by an adherence to National Socialist ideas. In other documents, Faye finds expressions of racism and exterminatory anti-Semitism. Faye disputes the view of Heidegger as a naïve, temporarily disoriented academician and instead shows him to have been a self-appointed "spiritual guide" for Nazism whose intentionality was clear. Contrary to what some have written, Heidegger's Nazism became even more radical after 1935, as Faye demonstrates. He revisits Heidegger's masterwork, Being and Time, and concludes that in it Heidegger does not present a philosophy of individual existence but rather a doctrine of radical self-sacrifice, where individualization is allowed only for the purpose of heroism in warfare. Faye's book was highly controversial when originally published in France in 2005. Now available in Michael B. Smith's fluid English translation, it is bound to awaken controversy in the English-speaking world. - Publisher.