Arendt later recalled Heidegger as someone who "fell into his own trap." AFAIK, Heidegger was not an ardent Nazi, who joined the party anyways for practical pur

Arendt later recalled Heidegger as someone who "fell into his own trap." AFAIK, Heidegger was not an ardent Nazi, who joined the party anyways for practical purposes. As Sarah Bakewell, author of "At the Existentialist Cafe",[1] would characterize him as "lacking personality." He wanted to reform education, but failed to gain enough political influence within the party to do so. Even after WW2, he never issued an official comment on his affiliation with Nazism. [1] Recommended read. Touches on interactions among existentialist thinkers like Karl Jaspers, Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sarte, Edmund Hurssel.