Brad’s Reviews > Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology > Status Update

tl;dr

In-crisis in-groups facing the concomitant cognitive dissonance are easy marks for superficially appealing narratives of convenience about who's to blame and what they deserve.

There's the danger of reactionary irrationalism being (paradoxically?) furthered by high-minded, pseudo-academic disguises. Curious how the final chapter will tackle Heideggerian ideas in the "New Right" in this light.

"Heidegger hailed Nazism for the steps that had been taken toward constructively resolving the 'confrontation between technology and modern man'."

Seeing that dialectical confrontation but with interpretive rigidity lacking "a genuine historical orientation", all that's left for Heidegger is "steely Romanticism" as a 'pseudo-concrete' (essentialist) form of synthesis.

"By viewing alienation ontologically and ahistorically, Heidegger disguised the class basis of social suffering. Thus, by treating alienation as endemic to Being-in-the-world, Heidegger portrayed it as an eternal and unalterable aspect of the human condition, rather than as a corrigible, class-determined phenomenon."