The Times of Israel: Ahmad Fardid, Martin Heidegger and the Crisis of Modernity III
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Martin Heidegger
Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had significant impact within subsequent philosophy, social sciences and humanities, and theology.
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Born 26 September 1889 · Died 26 May 1976 · Q48301
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2026· 9 entries
stephenhicks.org: German National Socialism: Heidegger and Orwell quotations
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“These revelations will help that process.”
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“s philosophy by Anglo-American analytic philosophy, beginning with the logical positivists, was almost uniformly negative. Rudolf Carnap accused Heidegger of offering an”
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“by living according to the principle of race [Jews] had themselves promoted the very reasoning by which they were now being attacked and so they had no right to complain when it was being used against them by the Germans promoting their own racial purity”
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“s presentation conflates two opposing influences. The first is Dilthey”
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Infobae: Martin Heidegger, filósofo: “Tu destino no se puede cambiar, pero sí se puede desafiar; cada hombre nace como muchos hombres y muere como uno solo”
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El Español: 'Heidegger en España', del entusiasmo a la incomodidad: así se recibieron las ideas del filósofo genial (y nazi)
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Philosophy Now: Martin Heidegger & the Evaporation of Freedom
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2024· 1 entry
The New Criterion: Snowblind: Martin Heidegger & Hannah Arendt
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2022· 1 entry
Yahoo: Martin Heidegger and the question of being
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2020· 1 entry
JSTOR Daily: Thinking Through Sound: Martin Heidegger and Wallace Stevens
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2017· 2 entries
The Forward: Martin Heidegger
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The Forward: Philosopher Martin Heidegger Spent Years Trying To Convince His Brother To Become A Nazi
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2014· 5 entries
The Daily Telegraph: Martin Heidegger: the philosopher who fell for Hitler
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The Guardian: Heidegger's black notebooks aren't that surprising | Domenico Losurdo
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The Guardian: Heidegger's 'black notebooks' reveal antisemitism at core of his philosophy
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“Citation choisie pour le 10 avril 2014.”
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Heidegger's Black Notebooks were published
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2013· 1 entry
KCRW: Martin Heidegger's Influence On "Riders On The Storm"
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2011· 1 entry
“Citation choisie pour le 16 octobre 2011.”
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2010· 3 entries
The New York Times: The Jewish Question: Martin Heidegger
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nytimes.com: The Jewish Question: Martin Heidegger
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“Citation choisie pour le 11 janvier 2010.”
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2009· 3 entries
NPR: The New Republic: A Lesson In Heidegger
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The Guardian: Heidegger's Being and Time: Temporality | Simon Critchley
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The Guardian: Being and Time, part 1: Why Heidegger matters Simon Critchley
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2005· 1 entry
“Tradução de Marcia Sá Cavalcanti Schuback, Editora Vozes, 2005”
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2000· 1 entry
“Heidegger: introdução a uma leitura" - Página 79, CHRISTIAN DUBOIS, Jorge Zahar Editor Ltda, 2000, ISBN 8571108234, 9788571108233 - 248 páginas”
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1997· 1 entry
“Hans-Georg Gadamer zitierte 1997 "ein Wort [...], das ich von meinem Lehrer Heidegger noch im Ohr habe, als er gesagt hat: »Zukunft ist Herkunft«." - »Zukunft ist Herkunft«. Hans-Georg Gadamer und Emil Schumacher, Ehrenbürger der Universität [Jena], S. 55 books.google.”
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1984· 1 entry
“Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected "Problems" of "Logic" (Grundfragen der Philosophie: Ausgewählte "Probleme" der "Logik" (1984), translated by Richard Rojcewicz and André Schuwer, Indiana University Press, 1994, ISBN 0253004381, p. 7)”
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1976· 16 entries
Died 1976-05-26.
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“Podstawowym procesem nowożytności jest podbój świata jako obrazu.”
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Under the title "Only a God Can Save Us" after a reference to Hölderlin that Heidegger makes during the interview
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“(…) dzieje oznaczają nie tyle „przeszłość” w sensie czegoś przeszłego, ale pochodzenie z niej. To, co „ma swoje dzieje”, sytuuje się w kontekście pewnego stawania się.”
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“Irracjonalizm – jako opozycja do racjonalizmu – wypowiada się zerkając tylko ku Temu, na co racjonalizm jest kompletnie ślepy i obojętny.”
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“Bycie nowym jest cechą świata, który stał się obrazem.”
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“Nic dziwnego, że humanizm dopiero tam wypływa na wierzch, gdzie świat staje się obrazem. (…) Charakteryzując takie właśnie rozumienie człowieka, które wyjaśnia i ocenia byt w całości, wychodząc od człowieka i do człowieka go odnosząc.”
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“A poesia é a fundação do ser pela palavra.”
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“A grande tragédia do mundo é que não cultiva a memória, e portanto se esquece dos mestres.”
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“Istota bytu ludzkiego zawarta jest w jego egzystencji.”
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“Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins. (niem.)”
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“Mając na względzie poezję, objaśnienie wiersza musi dążyć do tego, by stać się zbędnym. Ostatni, ale też najtrudniejszy krok każdej wykładni polega na usunięciu się w cień z objaśnieniami wobec czystego istnienia wiersza.”
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“Wiara, która nie jest stale wystawiana na możliwość niewiary, nie jest wiarą, ale zwykłą wygodą.”
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“Widać z dnia na dzień, na jak wielkiego męża stanu wyrasta Hitler.”
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“Zapytywanie jest pobożnością myślenia.”
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“Zagrożenie człowieka nie pochodzi od niebezpiecznego, być może, dla życia działania maszyn i aparatury technicznej. Właściwe zagrożenie już dotknęło człowieka w jego istocie. Panowanie zestawu grozi tym, że człowiekowi mogłoby zostać odmówione wkroczenie w bardziej źródłowe odkrywanie, a w ten sposób także doświadczanie przekazu bardziej początkowej prawdy.”
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1970· 1 entry
“Aus dem Spiegel-Spiel des Gerings des Ringes ereignet sich das Dingen des Dinges." – Das Ding, zit. nach Hans Joachim Störig: Kleine Weltgeschichte der Philosophie, Stuttgart: Kohlhammer 1970, S. 442”
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1967· 1 entry
Heidegger met with the Jewish poet Paul Celan, a concentration camp survivor
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1966· 1 entry
Gave an interview to Der Spiegel attempting to justify his support of the Nazi Party
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1960· 1 entry
Awarded Johann-Peter-Hebel-Preis (1960).
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1959· 1 entry
“Herkunft aber bleibt stets Zukunft." - Aus einem Gespräch von der Sprache – Zwischen einem Japaner und einem Fragenden, in Martin Heidegger: Unterwegs zur Sprache, Pfullingen: Verlag Günther Neske, 1959, http://www.mystiek.net/over-deze-site/wozu-lyrik-heute/3-2/.”
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1958· 1 entry
“[Nel 1958, nel corso di una conferenza su Hegel e i Greci all'Università di Aix-en-Provence] Ho trovato qui il sentiero di Cézanne, al quale il mio proprio cammino nel pensiero, a suo modo, corrisponde dall'inizio alla fine.”
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1954· 1 entry
“The Question Concerning Technology”
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1953· 2 entries
As part of the book Introduction to Metaphysics, Heidegger refers to the "inner truth and greatness" of the Nazi movement, but he then adds a qualifying statement in parentheses: "namely, the confrontation of planetary t
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“Introduction to Metaphysics (1953) — a publication of lectures of 1935.”
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1951· 1 entry
“What is Called Thinking? [Was heisst Denken?] (1951–1952), as translated by Fred D. Wieck and J. Glenn Gray (1968)”
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1949· 5 entries
“Die Sprache ist das Haus des Seins." – Über den Humanismus. Frankfurt a.M.: Klostermann, 1949. S. 5.”
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After which he returned to lecturing at the University of Freiburg
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“Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of countries to famine, the same thing as the manufacture of hydrogen bombs.”
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Heidegger said: "Agriculture is now a motorized food industry, the same thing in its essence as the production of corpses in the gas chambers and the extermination camps, the same thing as blockades and the reduction of
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“Four Lectures on Technology (1949)”
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1947· 1 entry
To clarify his differences with Jean-Paul Sartre and French existentialism
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1946· 3 entries
“Der Mensch ist der Nachbar des Seins." – Brief über den "Humanismus", 1946, in: Gesamtausgabe, Band 9 "Wegmarken", 1. Aufl., Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt/M 1976, S.342”
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“Der Mensch ist nicht der Herr des Seienden. Der Mensch ist der Hirt des Seins." - Brief über den "Humanismus", 1946, in: Gesamtausgabe, Band 9 "Wegmarken", 1. Aufl., Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt/M 1976, S.342”
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“Sprache ist lichtend-verbergende Ankunft des Seins selbst." – Brief über den "Humanismus", 1946, in: Gesamtausgabe, Band 9 "Wegmarken", 1. Aufl., Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt/M 1976, S.326”
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1945· 1 entry
Heidegger wrote of his term as rector, giving the writing to his son Hermann; it was published in 1983:
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1941· 1 entry
Under pressure from publisher Max Niemeyer, Heidegger agreed to remove the dedication to Husserl from Being and Time (restored in post-war editions)
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1940· 1 entry
(though not intended for publication), Löwith recalled that Heidegger wore a swastika pin to their meeting, though Heidegger knew that Löwith was Jewish
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1939· 2 entries
Heidegger took a strongly critical view of Hitler's ideology; however, in public lectures, he seems to have continued to make ambiguous comments which, if they expressed criticism of the regime, did so only in the contex
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Only a year after Husserl's death, Heidegger wrote in his Black Notebooks:
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1938· 1 entry
For which he later declared himself regretful: "That I failed to express again to Husserl my gratitude and respect for him upon the occasion of his final illness and death is a human failure that I apologized for in a le
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1936· 2 entries
While Heidegger was visiting Rome
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“Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) [Beitrage Zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)], notes of 1936–1938, as translated by Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (1989)”
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1935· 4 entries
Gave the talk "The Origin of the Work of Art"
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“Warum ist überhaupt Seiendes und nicht vielmehr Nichts? Das ist die Frage." – Einführung in die Metaphysik, 1935, in: Gesamtausgabe, Band 40, Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt/M 1983, § 1, erster Satz”
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“The Origin of the Work of Art”
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But that he did not want to admit this after the war, and the inclusion of this detail attempted to silently correct his earlier statement
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1934· 2 entries
And that he was willing to entertain more profound relations between his philosophy and political involvement
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When he refused, under threat of dismissal, to remove from the position of dean of the faculty those who were not acceptable to the Nazi party, and he consequently decided to resign as rector
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1933· 3 entries
He corresponded with Carl Schmitt, who like Heidegger joined the Nazi party in 1933 and they served together in the Academy for German Law.
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“Nicht Lehrsätze und 'Ideen' seien die Regeln eures Seins. Der Führer selbst und allein ist die heutige und künftige Wirklichkeit und ihr Gesetz." – Aufruf an die Deutschen Studenten. Freiburger Studentenzeitung 3. November 1933, in: Bernd Martin (Hrsg.), Martin Heidegger und das „Dritte Reich“. Ein Kompendium, Darmstadt: Wissenschaftliche Buchgesellschaft 1989”
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And they served together in the Academy for German Law
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1931· 1 entry
“The Essence of Truth, 1931-32”
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1929· 2 entries
“What is Metaphysics? (1929), p. 110”
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The neo-Kantian Ernst Cassirer and Heidegger engaged in an influential debate, during the Second Davos Hochschulkurs in Davos, concerning the significance of Kantian notions of freedom and rationality
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1928· 2 entries
Heidegger accepted Freiburg's election to be his successor, in spite of a counteroffer by Marburg
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As did Jan Patočka in 1933; Patočka, in particular, was deeply influenced by him
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1927· 4 entries
Heidegger published his main work, Sein und Zeit (Being and Time)
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“Das Gewissen redet einzig und ständig im Modus des Schweigens." – Sein und Zeit, 1927, in: Gesamtausgabe, Band 2, Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt/M 1977, § 56, S.363”
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“Die genannte Frage [nach dem Sinn von Sein] ist heute in Vergessenheit gekommen..." – Sein und Zeit, 1927, in: Gesamtausgabe, Band 2, Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt/M 1977, § 1, erster Satz”
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“Die Frage nach dem Sinn von Sein soll gestellt werden." – Sein und Zeit, 1927, in: Gesamtausgabe, Band 2, Verlag Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt/M 1977, § 2, erster Satz”
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1925· 1 entry
A 35-year-old Heidegger began what would be a four-year affair with Hannah Arendt, who was then 19 years old and his student
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1923· 1 entry
Heidegger was elected to an extraordinary professorship in philosophy at the University of Marburg
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1917· 1 entry
German-Jewish philosopher Edmund Husserl championed Heidegger's work, and helped Heidegger become his successor for the chair in philosophy at the University of Freiburg in 1928
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1916· 1 entry
Studied at University of Freiburg, Doctor of Philosophy (1916).
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1911· 1 entry
Broke off training for the priesthood and turned his attention to recent philosophy, in particular, Edmund Husserl's Logical Investigations
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1910· 1 entry
“Aus der Erfahrung des Denkens, 1910-1976 - página 78, Martín Heidegger - V. Klostermann, 1983 - 253 páginas”
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1909· 1 entry
But was discharged within weeks because of heart trouble
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1903· 1 entry
Heidegger began to train for the priesthood
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1889· 1 entry
Born 1889-09-26.
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