philosophical conversations

Heidegger & freedom

An interesting paper on Heidegger and freedom by Craig Nichols, which shows that Heiodegger worked with a positive conception of freedom inherited from German idealism.

This helps to counter the concentional view of Heidegger as a fundamentally un-political philosopher, one whose post-rectorial Nazi career was marked by "total withdrawal." This interpretation misses the deeply political nature of Heidegger's work after 1935 and it simplifies the extraordinarily complex thought path of a major thinker.