Derrida's Daddy, Herr Doktor Heidegger

[jolly]

Heidegger, who in Sein und Zeit had spoken much of resolutely facing death, joined the Nazis after Hitler came to power and, as Rektor of his university, delivered an inaugural address which, fortunately for him, is not widely read. If, as he now says, he soon abandoned Nazism, it is the more remarkable that his resolve was kept so quiet that even today many remain unconvinced.
- Existentialism; Kaufmann, p. 47

Professor Richard Wolin and other researches now believe Heidegger was dedicated to the National Socialist Party, indifferent to how Hitler ruled Germany.

Though [Richard] Wolin's grievance with Derrida is not at issue in "Heidegger's Children," one can't help feeling that, indirectly, it is being reprised. the heart of the controversy was Wolin's accusation that Derrida had tailored his "far-fetched and illogical" opinions about Heidegger's Nazism to dodge an important question: by embracing the legendary German thinker's philosophy, had Derrida and other radical postmodern leftists accepted the core of Heidegger's dubious politics as well?
- "Heidegger's Children": Sins of the Father; reviewed by James Ryerson, New York Times on the Web Book Review; December 21, 2001 

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http://home.earthlink.net/~lrgoldner/faye.html
"Further, Faye shows that the famous word Dekonstruktion was first used in a Nazi psychiatry journal edited by the cousin of Hermann G�ring, and that the word Logozentrismus was coined (for denunciatory purposes) in the 1920s by the protofascist thinker Ludwig Klages. In short, sections of French and, more recently, American academic discourse in the "human sciences" have been dominated for decades by a terminology originating not in Heidegger but first of all in the writings of Nazi scribblers, recycled through Latin Quarter Heideggerians. Faye zeroes in with surgical skill on the evasions of those, particularly those on the left, for whom the "greatest philosopher" of the century of Auschwitz happened to be--as a mere detail--a Nazi." 

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