“Innocent” Heidegger: an exorcism of the postmodern left

Abstract

Limiting itself to condemn Heidegger’s antisemitism trying to save his philosophy is a desperate attempt, because the antisemitism of the author of Being and Time does not have a naturalistic dimension, but a cultural one: for him ‘world Jewry’ is above all synonymous of modernity and humanism. Heidegger’s philosophy must be rejected not (only) as antisemitic, but (especially) as inherently reactionary.