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ment’ of physis” (Heidegger ca. 1938). This marginal note refers to §96 of the
GA edition (GA 65, 190). Cf. GA 66, 188, 193–94.
A DDENDUM 3
The range of existing interpretations of the statements on
Nazism in the Contributions is conveniently indicated by the titles of Vietta
1989 and Rockmore 1992. The fifth chapters of both books discuss the
Beiträge. Vietta’s perspective is closer to the truth. Rockmore supports his claim
that Heidegger continues to share the Nazis’“end in view” (186) only by defining
this goal broadly as “the realization of the Germans as German” (189) or
“the realization of the destiny of the German people” (191, cf. 201), even
though Rockmore observes that Heidegger denies that the people is an end in
itself (192, 196). By these standards, anyone with patriotic sentiments or concern
for a community should be called a Nazi. For another interpretation of the
Contributions as Hitlerian, see Faye 2005, 441–55.
A DDENDUM 4
Faye is at his weakest when he interprets such passages as a
“legitimation” of “the racial foundation of Nazism” (Faye 2005, 460). Faye
seems incapable of hearing the highly critical tone of Heidegger’s account of
racism at this point. Such flaws should not distract us from Faye’s legitimate
achievement in the earlier portions of his book, where he documents the
depths of Heidegger’s Nazism in the early and mid-thirties.
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