Editing Martin Heidegger (section)

===Post-rectorate period===
After the failure of Heidegger's rectorship, he withdrew from most political activity, but remained a member of the [[Nazi Party]]. In May 1934 he accepted a position on the Committee for the Philosophy of Law in the [[Academy for German Law]], where he remained active until at least 1936. The academy had official consultant status in preparing Nazi legislation such as the [[Nuremberg Laws|Nuremberg racial laws]] that came into effect in 1935. In addition to Heidegger, such Nazi notables as [[Hans Frank]], [[Julius Streicher]], [[Carl Schmitt]], and [[Alfred Rosenberg]] belonged to the Academy and served on this committee.

In a 1935 lecture, later published in 1953 as part of the book ''[[Introduction to Metaphysics (Heidegger)|Introduction to Metaphysics]]'', Heidegger refers to the "inner truth and greatness" of the Nazi movement, but he then adds a qualifying statement in parentheses: "namely, the confrontation of planetary technology and modern humanity". However, it subsequently transpired that this qualification had not been made during the original lecture, although Heidegger claimed that it had been. This has led scholars to argue that Heidegger still supported the Nazi party in 1935 but that he did not want to admit this after the war, and so he attempted to silently correct his earlier statement.{{sfn|Habermas|1989|pages=452–54}}{{efn|See also [[J. Habermas]], "Martin Heidegger: on the publication of the lectures of 1935", in [[Richard Wolin]], ed., ''The Heidegger Controversy'' ([[MIT Press]], 1993). The controversial page of the 1935 manuscript is missing from the Heidegger Archives in [[Marbach am Neckar|Marbach]]; however, Habermas's scholarship leaves little doubt about the original wording.}}

In private notes written in 1939, Heidegger took a strongly critical view of Hitler's ideology;{{sfn|Heidegger|2016|loc=§47}} however, in public lectures, he seems to have continued to make ambiguous comments which, if they expressed criticism of the regime, did so only in the context of praising its ideals. For instance, in a 1942 lecture, published posthumously, Heidegger said of recent German classics scholarship, "In the majority of "research results," the Greeks appear as pure National Socialists. This overenthusiasm on the part of academics seems not even to notice that with such "results" it does National Socialism and its historical uniqueness no service at all, not that it needs this anyhow."{{sfn|Heidegger|1996b|pages=79–80}}

An important witness to Heidegger's continued allegiance to Nazism during the post-rectorship period is his former student [[Karl Löwith]], who met Heidegger in 1936 while Heidegger was visiting Rome. In an account set down in 1940 (though not intended for publication), Löwith recalled that Heidegger wore a swastika pin to their meeting, though Heidegger knew that Löwith was Jewish. Löwith also recalled that Heidegger "left no doubt about his faith in [[Hitler]]", and stated that his support for Nazism was in agreement with the essence of his philosophy.{{sfn|Wolin|1991}}

Heidegger rejected the "biologically grounded racism" of the Nazis, replacing it with linguistic-historical heritage.{{sfn|Wheeler|2020|loc=[https://plato.stanford.edu/archives/fall2020/entries/heidegger/#OnlGodSavUs §3.5]}}