Article: Heidegger, nazism, and postmodernism. (philosopher Martin Heidegger)

Bill Cooke

It is one of the features of the depressed state of end-of-millennium philosophy that Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) should be experiencing a tremendous upsurge in popularity. Heidegger, once relegated to a chapter in the literature on existentialism, has recently reemerged as a central intellectual influence on the current fashion of postmodernism.

At the same time, the extent of Heidegger's collaboration with Hitlerism has become even clearer. This has developed to such an extent that David Harvey, a Marxist postmodernist, has admitted Heidegger's Nazi past (and that of Paul De Man, another prominent postmodernist thinker) to be a "major ...

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