POLITICAL INSTRUMENTALISATION OF PHILOSOPHY IN HEIDEGGER'S INTERPRETATION OF HEGEL. DEFENCE OF HEGEL

The author discusses Heidegger's seminars "On the Essence and Concept of Nature, History and State" (1933/1934) and "Hegel on the State" (1934/1935). The only recently published seminars shed a particular light on the relation between Heidegger's thought and National Socialism. This article primarily investigates Heidegger's interpretation of Hegel's definition of the concept, role and task of the state. The author shows that Heidegger's interpretation is in fact an attempt to justify, through arbitrary interpretation of Hegel, his own interpretation and justification of the national-socialist state and its leader as the pinnacle of the Western philosophical understanding of the state.