Gadamer on popularity, publishing, and paper.

Of course, the most astonishing aspect of Heidegger's great effect was that in the 1920s and the early 1930s, before he fell into political disfavor, he was able to generate such an unheard-of enthusiasm among his auditors and readers and that, after the war, he was able to regain that effect. This took place after a period of relative seclusion. He was unable to publish during the war because, after he had fallen into political disfavor, no one would give him any paper.

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Advantage internet.

Funny that the Nazi occupation provided Sartre with enough paper to publish the six hundred plus pages of Being and Nothingness in 1943. Then in 1945, the French occupation tried Heidegger as a former Nazi, while in Paris Sartre was celebrated as a hero of the French Resistance. Ut victor, vado spolium.  ¶ 7:14 PM