Heidegger on Americanism, After Carl Schmitt and Max Weber: The United States as a Figure of a Historical Transcendental

I would like to address in the following a salient feature of the thought of Martin Heidegger that has been largely commented, especially in his writings from the 1930s and 1940s: his anti-Americanism. I do not intend to identify all textual traces, nor to give a complete historical explanation, but my purpose is to defend the following idea: that his anti-Americanism is the symptom and the tool of political, theological and metaphysical positions, in accordance with his reading of the « history of Being ». This anti-Americanism corresponds once to a specific concept belonging to the Heideggerian thought of metaphysics, and also to prejudices and conceptual schemes of his time. It seems to me that identifying these conceptual schemes makes it possible to identify the philosophical role of his anti-Americanism, without erasing its very controversial and almost « journalistic » dimension.