Jan,

I hear you. I am conflicted in that I find his ideas interesting, but as you say his silence spoke volumes in his refusal to recant. I've read a few books and articles on the Nazi legacy--by his defenders and accusers--and can't say he comes off very well.

Dasein--that's a hard one. Maybe something like the (authentic) phenomenological experience of humans and how they exist in the world of space and time as compared with the (inauthentic) world of human interaction.

But this is what opens him up to accusations that he is reverting to or simply secularizing Christian ideas of grace and damnation (authentic and inauthentic), even if they are this-world instead of metaphysical.

Thanks for the good words!

Best, Tony