Heidegger
Archetype: Existentialist of Order
1889 to 1976 · Freiburg, Germany
“Language is the house of being.”
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Who was Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a student of Husserl and published Being and Time in 1927, one of the most influential works of the twentieth century. He investigated the meaning of being starting from human existence, marked by time and finitude. His embrace of Nazism while rector at Freiburg remains a source of fierce controversy.
Core ideas
- Western philosophy has forgotten the question of the meaning of being
- Facing our own death makes a more authentic existence possible
- Modern technology turns everything, nature included, into mere resource
The tradition: Existential ontology
Ontology studies being; the existential version starts from concrete human existence, in time and in the world, to think about being. Heidegger developed this approach in Being and Time.
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Books by Heidegger
Three ways in. Start with the first.
Where Heidegger stands on the 11 axes
Each axis runs from the first pole (−1) to the second (+1). These are the positions the test compares with your answers.
