[lit-ideas] Re: Heil Heidegger?

When and why did it become taken for granted that philosophy and politics
are necessarily related? I am thinking of an observation by Richard Rorty,
in my memory suggests *The Philosophy of Social Hope* that, while Heidegger
was a Nazi and John Dewey a social democrat, their philosophies of language
were remarkably similar — which Rorty took as evidence that there is no
necessary connection between philosophy and politics.

Just curious.

John

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