Schmitt (and thank you for corrected spelling - I'm away from my books
at present) seems to have been a little like Heidegger in his
relationship to the Nazis: he wanted them to be more "pure"
totalitarians.
Nietzsche was no Nazi, but some of the Nazis thought they were
Nietzscheans. Derrida is quite good on this, in "The Ear Of The
Other", raising the question of the extent to which Nietzsche can be
held responsible for the uses made of his texts - is there even a
subliminal "Nazi programme" in them, or was the Nazi appropriation of
Nietzsche purely a distortion?
Dominic
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