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...
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Heidegger, Martin
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...
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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...
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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...
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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 exist...
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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...
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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...
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Critical Essay by David A. White
Since Heidegger's discussion of language in any form nearly always originates from a consideration of poetic texts, his own hermeneutical techniques and those o...
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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...
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Critical Essay by L. L. Duroche
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 ...
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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 ...
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Critical Essay by Robert Mugerauer
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,...
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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...
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Critical Essay by William Barrett (interview with Bryan Magee)
[BRYAN MAGEE]: Professor Barrett, if you can imagine that I am somebody who knows absolutely nothing at all about the philosophy of Marti...
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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...
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