German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) has become widely regarded as the most original twentieth century philosopher. Recent interpretations of his philosophy closely associate him with existentialism (despite his repudiation of such...

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 existentialism (despite his repudiation of such...

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 century. Its main focus had been announced at least fifteen...

. 1889–1976. Born in Baden, he lived and taught in Germany, especially in Freiburg. He was a leading EXISTENTIALIST and his work centred round an investigation of ‘being’, both that which is proper to human beings,...

Heidegger, Martin(1889 s Contributions to Philosophy. Bloomington: Indiana University Press,...

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976), who was born in Messkirch, Germany, on September 26 and died there on May 26, was among the most important thinkers of the twentieth century. His significance for science, technology, and ethics may be approached...

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 meaning of being. Raised as a strict Roman Catholic, he studied for...

Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889 – May 26, 1976) (pronounced [ˈmaʀtɪn ˈhaɪdəgɐ]) was an influential German philosopher. His best known work is Being and Time. if (window.showTocToggle) { var tocShowText = "show"; var tocHideText =...

MANY consider Martin Heidegger to be the twentieth century's most significant philosopher. Arendt, Lowith, Strauss, Kojeve, Gadamer, and Marcuse studied with him; Jaspers, Bultmann, Sartre, and Derrida wrote books heavily influenced by his work. Existentialism, deconstructionism, literary and art criticism, and environmentalism owe...

Abstracts According to Ronald Dworkin's influential model for constructing a theory of adjudication, the theorist aims both for a descriptively adequate and a normatively defensible account of adjudication. To be descriptively adequate, the theory must make explicit the rule-governed procedures that regulate...

I take it that one of the reasons Heidegger wrote [Discourse on Thinking] was to invite us to think. And if we are aware of the difficulties of reading and thinking, we might fairly assume that Heidegger was aware of them too. Indeed, we may assume he was more aware of them than most of us are. Further, if I or anyone else claims to be able to help us to read Heidegger, we need to discover some clues as to how to go about it and then pass these on. I say discover, rather than invent, because I believe Heide...

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 a subject matter for philosophy. For many generations philosophers have looked to natural science for a model of philosophic method as well as for standards by which to judge the worth of philosophic effort. Anglo-Saxon philosophers have also used the findings of the sciences, social and natural, increasingly as the proper material for reflec...

The influence of Martin Heidegger on recent German letters has so far outweighed that of any other contemporary German thinker and has had such a profound influence on so many aspects of contemporary German thought that it is only to be expected that German literary criticism and literary theory have also felt the impact of his thinking. Without a doubt, the contribution of Heidegger to modern philosophical thinking surpasses that of any other contemporary philosopher. His work represents in a very true sen...

An essay on the life and ideas of the German philosopher Martin Heidegger.