>>7294606>>7294667Looking at this more, the Wolin article is just straight-up retarded.
"With the publication of the Black Notebooks, what has now become indubitably clear is that racial prejudice against non-Germanic peoples—the English, the Russians, the French, the Americans, and, especially, the Jews—lies at the very center of Heidegger’s philosophical project. It is inseparable from the Volk-concept that he had embraced already in Being and Time (1927) and that he continued to exalt throughout his lectures and seminars of the 1930s. Heidegger’s belief in the ontological superiority of the German Volk underwrites his political view that inferior peoples may be justly persecuted in the name of “the history of Being,” a point that has also been forcefully made by the Black Notebooks’ editor, Peter Trawny, in his short book Heidegger und der Mythos der jüdischen Weltverschwörung (Heidegger and the Myth of the Jewish World Conspiracy)."
1) Wolin seems to see no distinction between Heidegger's evidently *metaphysical* take on "the English, the Russians, the French, the Americans, and, especially, the Jews" and the "racial prejudice" that he instead sees, and he offers no evidence that Heidegger's views are founded on a *racial* doctrine.
2) However one takes those views (metaphysical or racial), he doesn't offer any evidence that they "[lay] at the very center of Heidegger’s philosophical project", and seems to ignore that scholars since the 60s have spoken of the difference in orientation between Heidegger's philosophical work in the 20s and his work from the 30s on, when Heidegger began developing his "history of Being".
3) Wolin claims that Heidegger already had a "volk-concept" in Being and Time, but he offers no quotation or reference to relevant passages, because there is no "volk-concept" in Being and Time. The most charitable thing one could say about Wolin's understanding of that issue is that he thinks ideas in Being and Time (probably the authenticity and fateful destiny passages) correspond perfectly only to a "volk-concept".
4) "Heidegger’s belief in the ontological superiority of the German Volk underwrites his political view that inferior peoples may be justly persecuted in the name of 'the history of Being'" is a claim made without any reference to anything Heidegger wrote, and again, doesn't see any difference between metaphysical critique and political philosophy. Pointing to Trawny's book doesn't prove anything, even if Trawny makes the same claim, since one would think that the best source would be some explicit passage in the notebooks about the necessary persecution of peoples on a racial basis for metaphysical reasons.
tl;dr:
>I don't have to understand Heidegger to editorialize on him 
