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Heidegger's Communal Self-Assertion

While "community" is not a dominant theme in Heidegger's work, it has begun to receive serious attention.¹ There is a growing conviction that in community—in both Heidegger's rare engagements with it and his silence about it'there is something elusive which "calls for thinking." Yet, there is cause for hesitation. On the one hand, the theme of community weighs heavily on Heidegger: on at least one occasion (his controversial 1933 rectorial address), he advocates a vision of authentic community which, though not a direct endorsement of National Socialism, seems shockingly at ease with it. In exhorting the German university to will...