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Message: <blockquote data-quote="pemerton" data-source="post: 8581481" data-attributes="member: 42582">It can be fairly complicated.I don't like Heidegger, and never have. Part of this is technical disagreement with his philosophical doctrines. Part of this is because of his unconcealed alliance with the National Socialist government. But Heidegger continues to be taught and studied, and remains very influential, in the contemporary academy, and more so among left wing than right wing scholars at least in the English speaking context.When I encounter people with a casual interest in inter-war German-language philosophy, I try to encourage them to look into the Vienna Circle and associates. I make the point that many of these philosophers were socialists or liberals who were victims of National Socialism and became refugees in the US, the UK or (briefly, in Popper's case) NZ. But my intellectual sympathies for logical positivism have sometimes made me suspect among left wing philosophers, because they associate "positivism" with right-wing sociology and economics.I have good friends, who I regard as morally good people, who engage intellectually with Heidegger's work. That's their prerogative. Even I will concede that there's stuff in Heidegger that's interesting.</blockquote>