| > Philosophy went nazi? No, nazism went philosophy, and poorly too. Yes, the Nazis looked for "intellectual" support, but you're ignoring that they got it. If you want to argue causality.... > They raped Nietzsche's philosophy until it fit their needs, with the help of his decadent Missgeburt of a sister. Ah yes, the "Nazis were unpopular in Germany" defense..... >Heidegger is perhaps a much more problematic case, but also not a matter of black-and-white. Heidegger is "problematic" only if you choose to ignore his actual positions at the time in favor of post WWII revisionism. (In other news, early 1900s progressives were eugenicists and segregationists.) We can argue about whether that alone make Nazism popular with philosophers of that era or they came to that support on their own, but to deny that there was widespread agreement is simply absurd. To be fair, Nazism was very popular across all social classes in the 30s, so the intellectual support wasn't way outside the mainstream. My point is that isn't an example where the intellectual class got it right. Do you want to blame that on the influence of the rest of society? (They didn't at the time, but surely we shouldn't believe what philosophers say about their reasons.) |