"Heidegger decided, in 1933, to join the National-Socialist German Worker's Party, and gave lectures for a year in his university, in full uniform... To the shock and horror and consternation of much of the academic elite that he was associated with... And don't forget that Heidegger did this for purely theoretical and speculative reasons... Heidegger had no concern with doctrines of race, no concern with doctrines of conspiracy, no concern with politics at all. Politics was irrelevant in relation to placing man before death, which is what life was about. And what he liked about this movement was that he thought it was a primordial movement... That was bringing back, almost in an occultistic way, the partiality toward death that in some ways it was bringing back the ancient world... with modern technology. That's why he reached out to it."
- Bowden's "Heidegger and Death's Ontology"
