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{{Infobox philosopher|name=Martin Heidegger|nationality=German|birth_date=26 September 1889|birth_place=[[Meßkirch]], [[Grand Duchy of Baden (1806–1918)|Grand Duchy of Baden]], [[German Empire (1871–1918)|German Empire]]|death_date=26 May 1976 (aged 86)|death_place=Meßkirch, [[State of Baden-Württemberg|Baden-Württemberg]], [[West Germany]]|image=Martin Heidegger.png|image_size=200|school_tradition=[[Existentialism]]<br>[[Metaphysics]]<br>[[Postmodernism]]}}
{{Infobox philosopher|name=Martin Heidegger|nationality=German|birth_date=26 September 1889|birth_place=[[Meßkirch]], [[Grand Duchy of Baden (1806–1918)|Grand Duchy of Baden]], [[German Empire (1871–1918)|German Empire]]|death_date=26 May 1976 (aged 86)|death_place=Meßkirch, [[State of Baden-Württemberg|Baden-Württemberg]], [[West Germany]]|image=Martin Heidegger.png|image_size=200|school_tradition=[[Existentialism]]<br>[[Postmodernism]]}}


'''Martin Heidegger''' (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi]] philosopher and postmodernist. He criticized the [[rationalism]] of Western philosophy and claimed that technology removes the intrinsic [[value]] of people and objects. He inspired anti-[[Marxism|Marxist]] [[Liberalism|liberal]] [[French Republic|French]] intellectuals during the 1960s and 1970s. More recently, [[Fascism|fascists]] such as [[Aleksandr Dugin]] and [[Richard Spencer]] have promoted his works.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Matthew Sharpe|newspaper=The Conversation|title=Heidegger in ruins? Grappling with an anti-semitic philosopher and his troubling rebirth today|date=2023-04-11|url=https://theconversation.com/heidegger-in-ruins-grappling-with-an-anti-semitic-philosopher-and-his-troubling-rebirth-today-200826|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412200401/https://theconversation.com/heidegger-in-ruins-grappling-with-an-anti-semitic-philosopher-and-his-troubling-rebirth-today-200826|archive-date=2023-04-12|retrieved=2023-04-18}}</ref> [[Steve Bannon]] called Heidegger "my guy."<ref name=":1">{{Web citation|author=Joan Braune|newspaper=Marx & Philosophy|title=Heidegger in Ruins: Between Philosophy and Ideology|date=2023-08-25|url=https://marxandphilosophy.org.uk/reviews/21148_heidegger-in-ruins-between-philosophy-and-ideology-by-richard-wolin-reviewed-by-joan-braune/|retrieved=2023-08-31}}</ref>
'''Martin Heidegger''' (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976) was a [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi]] philosopher and postmodernist. He criticized the [[rationalism]] of Western philosophy and claimed that technology removes the intrinsic [[value]] of people and objects. He inspired anti-[[Marxism|Marxist]] [[Liberalism|liberal]] [[French Republic|French]] intellectuals during the 1960s and 1970s. More recently, fascist such as [[Aleksandr Dugin]] and [[Richard Spencer]] have promoted his works.<ref name=":0">{{Web citation|author=Matthew Sharpe|newspaper=The Conversation|title=Heidegger in ruins? Grappling with an anti-semitic philosopher and his troubling rebirth today|date=2023-04-11|url=https://theconversation.com/heidegger-in-ruins-grappling-with-an-anti-semitic-philosopher-and-his-troubling-rebirth-today-200826|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230412200401/https://theconversation.com/heidegger-in-ruins-grappling-with-an-anti-semitic-philosopher-and-his-troubling-rebirth-today-200826|archive-date=2023-04-12|retrieved=2023-04-18}}</ref>


== Early career ==
== Nazi beliefs ==
Heidegger blamed the post-[[First World War|WW1]] economic crisis on [[Judaism|Jews]] and glorified war. He was influenced by [[Friedrich Nietzsche]], [[Carl Schmitt]], and [[Ernst Jünger]] (a prominent [[National Bolshevism|National Bolshevik]]).<ref name=":1" />
Heidegger joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933 and made a series of speeches in support of the [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Third Reich]]. He claimed that [[Judaism|Jews]] were predisposed to criminality and that they [[Conspiracy theory|somehow controlled the world]]. He also said that Allied war crimes during the [[Second World War]] were a thousand times worse than those of the Nazis. His works were banned in Germany until the 1980s.<ref name=":0" />
 
In 1927, he wrote ''Being and Time'', which was centered around the metaphysical concept of ''Dasein'' (existence). He rejected all other philosophies, both ancient and modern, because they did not focus on the issue of existence itself.<ref name=":2">{{Web citation|author=[[John Bellamy Foster]]|newspaper=[[Monthly Review]]|title=The New Irrationalism|date=2023-02-01|url=https://monthlyreview.org/2023/02/01/the-new-irrationalism/|archive-url=https://web.archive.org/web/20230806060940/https://monthlyreview.org/2023/02/01/the-new-irrationalism/|archive-date=2023-08-06}}</ref>
 
== Nazi involvement ==
Heidegger praised ''[[Mein Kampf]]'' in 1931. He joined the Nazi Party on 1 May 1933 and made a series of speeches in support of the [[German Reich (1933–1945)|Third Reich]]. He was aligned with the [[Strasserism|Strasserist]] faction of the [[National Socialist German Workers' Party|Nazi Party]], which emphasized social benefits for Aryan workers but was also highly [[Racism|racist]] and [[Nationalism|nationalist]]. He pushed the University of Freiburg to the right and expelled Jewish faculty.<ref name=":1" />
 
During the [[Second World War|war]], he claimed that Jews were predisposed to criminality<ref name=":0" /> and that they controlled the [[United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland|UK]], [[United States of America|USA]], and [[Union of Soviet Socialist Republics (1922–1991)|Soviet Union]].<ref name=":1" /> Like Nietzsche, he believed that [[democracy]] led to "a degenerate form of [[nihilism]]."<ref name=":2" />
 
== Post-war ==
Heidegger said that Allied war crimes during the Second World War were a thousand times worse than those of the Nazis. His works were banned in Germany until the 1980s.<ref name=":0" />


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