Heidegger: a geopolitics of the geist

Abstract

Heidegger became involved in politics, of course by accepting the rectorship in Freiburg, at a time when Hitler had just assumed power. And he did not do so only as an adherent to his regime and the official Party. In fact, he expressed differences with National Socialist ideology, in particular with naturalism and biologism, but at the same time affirmed that this movement contained an "inner truth". So the questioning of his commitment must also shed light on his thinking, regardless of whether the acts themselves have a revealing power.