Martin Heidegger Summary

Heidegger, Martin HEIDEGGER, MARTIN (1889–1976), was a German philosopher. Young Heidegger's concern with the meaning of holy scripture was matched by his interest in the question of the... Read more

Heidegger, Martin(1889–1976) Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was born in Messkirch, a small town in the hills of southwestern Germany. The environment of his modest, middle class upbringing... Read more

German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) has become widely regarded as the most original 20th century philosopher. Recent interpretations of his philosophy closely associate him with existentia... Read more

Martin Heidegger's 1927 publication, Sein und Zeit: Erste Hälfte (translated as Being and Time, 1962), can plausibly be considered the most influential philosophical text of the twentieth centur... Read more

Critical Essay by Michael Hamburger The mere fact that Heidegger has thought Trakl worthy of his particular form of exegesis, which combines what seems like close textual analysis with the most far-re... Read more

Critical Essay by Victor Lange The evident impact of Heidegger's thought on modern critical theories has resulted from three aspects of his system: he replaces, first, in Sein und Zeit and in h... Read more

Critical Essay by J. Glenn Gray Some day the major significance of the existentialist movement may be seen to lie in the recovery of poetry (in the generic sense of imaginative literature and art) as ... Read more

Critical Essay by Marjorie Grene What has this Heidegger, the prophet of the Seinsfrage, to say to us? That is hard to assess. German philosophical thinking speaks a language doubly different from Eng... Read more

    Martin Heidegger was born to a Catholic family and destined for the church clergy. Religion, however, gave inadequate answers to his nagging questions. Frustrated, he turned to phil... Read more