1. The first round in the Heidegger wars began just after the end of World War II, in the pages of Les Temps modernes, where Heidegger's purported Nazism was first debated. A second round began in the 1960s, provoked by the publication of Heidegger's own speeches and lectures from the period of his Rektorat at Freiburg University (1933–34) in Guido Schneeberger's privately published Nachlese zu Heidegger (1962)Google Scholar. The third or current round began with the publication of Farías's book in 1987. For an overview of the issues raised by the Heidegger wars, see Milchman, Alan and Rosenberg, Alan, “The Philosophical Stakes of the Heidegger Wars, Part I: Methodologies for the Reading of Heidegger, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 27, 1993CrossRefGoogle Scholar, and Milchman, Alan and Rosenberg, Alan, The Philosophical Stakes of the Heidegger Wars, Part II: Ethical and Political Ramifications of the Reading of Heidegger, The Journal of Value Inquiry, 28, 1994CrossRefGoogle Scholar

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3. Rickey, Christopher, Revolutionary Saints: Heidegger, National Socialism, and Antinomian Politics (University Park, Pennsylvania: The Pennsylvania University Press, 2002)Google Scholar.

4. Fried, Gregory, Heidegger's Polemos: From Being to Politics (New Haven & London: Yale University Press, 2000)CrossRefGoogle Scholar.

5. Thus Wolin can see Heidegger both as searching for a way out of nihilism, and even identifying the Hitler-staat with redemption from the reign of nihilism, and as an embodiment of nihilism, conceived as a repudiation of universal values.

6. It is important to remember here that for Fried, polemos should not be conceived as war though that is clearly how the Hitler-staat conceived its relations to other peoples.