Philosopher · Twentieth century · Germany
Martin Heidegger
1889–1976
German thinker whose Being and Time of 1927 remade philosophy around the question of being. He joined the Nazi Party in 1933 and served as rector of Freiburg, a fact that shadows his towering influence. He lived 1889 to 1976.
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- Born
- 1889, Messkirch, Germany.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Martin Heidegger
- Died
- 1976, Freiburg, Germany.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Martin Heidegger
- School
- Phenomenology turned to ontology; existentialism's source.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Martin Heidegger
- Known for
- Being and Time, Dasein, being toward death, and the later critique of technology.
- Source: Encyclopaedia Britannica, Martin Heidegger
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