Martin Heidegger and the thinking of evil : from the original ethics to the Black Notebooks

According to some interpretations, the recent publication of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks seems to nail Heidegger to his responsibility toward the Third Reich and moreover toward Holocaust. On one hand we find some scholars that stress the banality of Heidegger’s evil due to his anti-Semitic convictions (Nancy), on the other hand we find others that underline Heidegger’s contribution to the philosophy of Nazism (Faye, Wolin). Surfing between different conceptions of anti-Semitism, such as ontological or metaphysical (Trawny, Di Cesare), we face with a new imagine of Heidegger: not only the philosopher linked to the National socialism, but moreover an anti-Semite that has given his contribution to the theoretical ground of evil. The aims of this paper are on three levels: firstly, I will show how the mentioned interpretations regarding Black Notebooks ground on a series of fallacies and misinterpretations that produce only «petitio principii» and «confirmation bias»; in second place, I will be back to the original ethics that since «Being and Time» remains into the framework of the ontological interrogation; in third place I will show how Heidegger’s relationship toward Nazism played a very limited role into his meditation and it is far from the entire history of Being (Seinsgeschichte).