Friedrich Nietzsche and Martin Heidegger hold firmly entrenched places within the canon of modern philosophy. And rightly so: both are penetrating critics of liberal modernity. Yet we need to ask ourselves whether, as academics teaching these thinkers, we are doing full justice to the more disturbing aspects of their thought. They don’t simply interrogate the axioms of modern life as a subject for intellectual reflection; they have a praxis-oriented project to demolish the post-1789 moral-political dispensation that we tend to take for granted and replace it with a new radically illiberal and anti-egalitarian dispensation. The task of reconsidering the perils of going too easy on these thinkers, or giving them the benefit of the doubt, is made more urgent by the apparent return of fascist or ‘fascoid’ modes of politics, and in particular, the emergence of a far-right intelligentsia all too keen to appropriate these thinkers for far-right purposes.

弗里德里希·尼采（Friedrich Nietzsche）和马丁·海德格尔（Martin Heidegger）在现代哲学的典范中拥有牢固的地位。的确如此：两者都对自由现代性提出了深刻的批评。然而，我们需要自问，当学者们在教授这些思想家时，我们是否正在为他们思想中更为令人不安的方面做充分的公正对待。他们不只是质疑现代生活的公理，而是进行理性思考的主题。他们有一个以实践为导向的项目，以拆除1789年后的道德政治体制，而我们倾向于将其视为理所当然，并将其替换为新的，根本上是非自由的和反平等的体制。法西斯主义或“愚蠢的”政治模式的明显回归使重新考虑这些思想家过分冒险或给他们带来疑问的危险的任务变得更加紧迫。