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Both "Reckless Minds" and "The Closing of the American Mind" take Heidegger to task and much scholarship has been performed re Heidegger over the last 50 years and which has cast a huge black cloud over him.

I read Rudiger Safranski's book on Heidegger which in the end gave me a sense of his dark side and made me rather ill. There is no doubt whatsoever that Heidegger was anti-enlightenment and consulted with Faustian Principalities and Powers.

My reading of Postmodernism and Nihilism places Heidegger and his children (Marcuse, Arhendt, and a few others)at the epicenter of Postmodernism and Nihilism.

In conclusion I consider Heidegger a reckless mind and philo-tyrannical.

Nietzsche is in a class of his own and falls within the highest ranks of human philosophy. Those who deny his importance and effects on 20-21st century thought are either willfully disregarding that truth or just do not know.

It seems that Critical Theory and Consciousness Studies have supplanted old fashioned Philosophy.

We have been betrayed by most of the so-called intellectuals. Postmodernism has overrun American Academia where Foucault and Derrida still live on.

I live in Raleigh, NC where Duke University has become one of the beachheads of Postmodernism.