Summary
Victor Farias: Heidegger and Nazism
When studying the relationship between a thinker and a political system, one must go beyond the pure analysis of abstract ideas and meanings. Namely, philosophical and political ideas, as such, indicate not only the field of view in which they appear, but also the objective behavior of their representative. That is why the undertaking of their interpretation necessarily requires three levels of analysis: the level of the objective historical context, the level of the concrete behavior of the thinker who takes this or that political position, and the level of the systematic meaning of the ideas he formulates. That meaning certainly cannot be directly deduced from a given objective context, but it cannot be fully understood without reference to the context in which these ideas appear and to the behavior to which they contribute...
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