Heidegger

Everyone's favorite Nazi. This is probably most of what you need to know: Heidegger tells us that "the Nothing noths." "Noths" being a word Heidegger has made up, it is hard to know what it means. Aside from which, it is hard to understand why he was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis in the 1930s, why he continued to support them during the Second World War, and why he even refused to condemn the ideology afterwards. "We should not be surprised that Heidegger was for a short period a Nazi, not because anything in Sein und Zeit entails National Socialism but because nothing in Sein und Zeit could give one a standpoint from which to criticise it or any other irrationalism." More...

I would say that, given Heidegger's impenetrability, it's good to know that his politics allow us to skip him completely. Noth this, bub!