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== Early career ==
== Early career ==
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 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" />
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 ==
== 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" />
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" />
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" />


== Post-war ==
== Post-war ==
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== References ==
== References ==
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