“The experience of the concentration camps shows that human beings can be transformed into specimens of the human animal, and man’s 'nature' is only 'human' insofar as it opens up to man the possibility of becoming something highly unnatural, that is, a man.”
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“Heidegger lies notoriously always and everywhere, and whenever he can.”
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