“s belief in an objective, logical basis for philosophy, Heidegger attenuated the ability of philosophy to oppose the resurgence of myth in German politics of the 1930s. The Myth of the State discusses the surrender of rational logic to fascist mythology. Cassirer wrote that while fascist propaganda mythmaking flagrantly contradicted empirical reality, it provided a simple and direct answer to the anxieties of the secular present. Legacy The Kantian scholar Lewis White Beck noted that Cassirer”
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