Heidegger´s Volk : Between National Socialism and Poetry

In 1933 the philosopher Martin Heidegger declared his allegiance to Hitler. Ever since, scholars have asked to what extent his work is implicated in Nazism. To address this question properly involves neither conflating Nazism and the continuing philosophiocal project that is Heideggers legacy, nor absolving Heidegger and, in the process, turning a deaf ear to what he himself called the philosophical motivations for his political engagement. It is important to establish the terms on which Heidegger aligned himself whith National Socialism. On the basis of a untimely, yet by no menas unprecedented understanding of the mission of the German people, the philosopher first joined but then also critizied the movement.
An exposition of Hiedegger´s conception of Volk (people) hence can and must treat its merits and deficiencies as a to the enduring impasse in contemporary political philosophy of the dilema between liberalism and authoritarism.