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Heidegger overtakes Schmitt after Schmitt refuses to de-nazify, doesn’t see uptick in popularity until the 1980s

Heidegger was banned from teaching in Germany from 1945-1951, but this didn’t stop his work from gaining in popularity. Schmitt, who was unrepentant about his Nazism for the rest of his life, fell out of favor until an increase in popularity that started in the 1980s.