![]() Heidegger’s distinguished career as professor of philosophy at the University of Freiburg was marred by a singular event in his life.Īfter Hitler’s seizure of power in 1933 Heidegger the world-renowned philosopher became Heidegger the Nazi, holding membership card number 312589. His writings have influenced thinkers as diverse as Herbert Marcuse, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Paul Tillich and countless others. Many currents of contemporary thought over the past 70 years have been inspired by and in some cases directly derived from the work of Heidegger.Īmong these we can mention existentialism, hermeneutics, postmodernism, eco-feminism, and various trends in psychology, theology and literature. The success of Being and Time was immediate and its influence pervasive. His international reputation was assured with the publication in 1927 of Being and Time, a book that was characterized by the young Jürgen Habermas as “the most significant philosophical event since Hegel’s Phänomenologie …” Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) has been considered by many to be one of the titans of twentieth century philosophy. ![]() ![]()
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