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<jats:p>This paper is an attempt to think through Derrida’s newly discovered <jats:italic>Geschlecht III</jats:italic>, the third and missing installment of Derrida’s four part series on Heidegger and <jats:italic>Geschlecht</jats:italic>. I argue that Derrida’s reading of Heidegger in <jats:italic>Geschlecht III</jats:italic> needs to be situated within the philosophico-political context of Derrida’s 1984–85 seminar—given under the general title <jats:italic>Philosophical Nationality and Nationalism</jats:italic>—from which <jats:italic>Geschlecht III</jats:italic> is extracted. In the first part of the paper, I reconstruct Derrida’s general problematic of national-humanism as he lays it out in the opening sessions of the seminar, before arriving at his reading of Heidegger, who will be part of “a sequence of German national-philosophism,” as Derrida calls it. In the second part, the paper turns explicitly to <jats:italic>Geschlecht III</jats:italic> where, as I show, Derrida’s thoroughgoing denunciation of a national-humanism in Heidegger becomes all the more telling when seen through the theoretical matrix of the seminar.</jats:p>