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Is Heidegger Contaminated by Nazism? | The New Yorker

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It’s impossible to disavow Heidegger’s useful and influential thinking, but it’s also impossible to set aside his sins.

Save this story Save this story If I had to rate the best intellectual experiences of my life, choosing the two or three most profound—a tendentious task, but there you are—one of them would be reading Heidegger. I was in my late twenties, and struggling with a dissertation on the nature of consciousness (what it is, where it comes from, how it fits into the material world). This had turned out to be an impossible subject. Everything I read succeeded only by narrowing the world, imagining it to be either a material or a spiritual place—never both. Then, in the course of a year, I read Heidegge

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