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is guilty of lying his inauthentic head off about his relationship to the Nazis. In fact, he was an enthusiastic believer in National Socialism’s “inner truth and greatness”, hoping to become the Fuhrer of the university system and hoping to play philosopher-king to Hilter’s Fuhrerstaat.

After several decades of courageous scholarship by Hugo Ott, Victor Farias and Emmanuel Faye in Europe, and related work by American scholars Thomas Sheehan, Richard Wolin, Tom Rockmore and others, no sensible observer today doubts that Heidegger, the most celebrated figure in twentieth-century German philosophy, lied his inauthentic head off about his relationship to the Nazis. Far from being a reluctant sympathizer for a brief period in the early 1930s, as he sought to convince his denazification committee, Heidegger had been an enthusiastic believer in National Socialism’s “inner truth and greatness.” He hoped to become the Fuhrer of the university system, to play philosopher-king to Hilter’s Fuhrerstaat...

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