Heidegger's family could not afford to send him to university, so he entered a Jesuit seminary, though he was turned away within weeks because of the health requirement and what the director and doctor of the seminary described as a psychosomatic heart condition.

Some writers on Heidegger's work see possibilities within it for dialogue with traditions of thought outside of Western philosophy, particularly East Asian thinking.

It has also been claimed that a number of elements within Heidegger's thought bear a close parallel to Eastern philosophical ideas, particularly Zen Buddhism and Taoism.

" He called Farías a weak reader of Heidegger's thought, adding that much of the evidence Farías and his supporters touted as new had long been known within the philosophical community.

The German poet Friedrich Hölderlin, whose translation of the play had strong impact on Heidegger's reading, brings out a more subtle reading of the play: he focuses on Antigone's legal and political status within the palace, her privilege to be the hearth ( according to the legal instrument of the epiklerate ) and thus protected by Zeus.

Furthermore, it has been claimed that a number of elements within phenomenology ( mainly Heidegger's thought ) have some resonance with Eastern philosophical ideas, particularly with Zen Buddhism and Taoism.

There are also recent signs of the reception of phenomenology ( and Heidegger's thought in particular ) within scholarly circles focused on studying the impetus of metaphysics in the history of ideas in Islam and Early Islamic philosophy ; perhaps under the indirect influence of the tradition of the French Orientalist and philosopher Henri Corbin.

Some have claimed that there is also a definite eastern element within Heidegger's philosophy.

For the most part this is not made explicit within Heidegger's philosophy, apart from in the dialogue between a Japanese and inquirer.

To those raised on Marcel's Homo Viator and Heidegger's das Nichtige, this may seem a modest role for philosophy.

: Re-examined the fundamentals of writing and its consequences on philosophy in general ; sought to undermine the language of ' presence ' or metaphysics in an analytical technique which, beginning as a point of departure from Heidegger's notion of Destruktion, came to be known as Deconstruction.

Heidegger's influence has been far reaching, from philosophy to theology, deconstructionism, literary theory, architecture, and artificial intelligence.

Heidegger's work has strongly influenced philosophy, aesthetics of literature, and the humanities.

Defenders think this error was irrelevant to Heidegger's philosophy.

Heidegger's philosophy is founded on the attempt to conjoin what he considers two fundamental insights: the first is his observation that, in the course of over 2, 000 years of history, philosophy has attended to all the beings that can be found in the world ( including the " world " itself ), but has forgotten to ask what " being " itself is.

Heidegger's intuition about the question of being is thus a historical argument, which in his later work becomes his concern with the " history of being ," that is, the history of the forgetting of being, which according to Heidegger requires that philosophy retrace its footsteps through a productive " destruction " of the history of philosophy.

The second intuition animating Heidegger's philosophy derives from the influence of Edmund Husserl, a philosopher largely uninterested in questions of philosophical history.

Thus Husserl's understanding that all consciousness is " intentional " ( in the sense that it is always intended toward something, and is always " about " something ) is transformed in Heidegger's philosophy, becoming the thought that all experience is grounded in " care.

The existential analytic of Being and Time was thus always only a first step in Heidegger's philosophy, to be followed by the " dismantling " ( Destruktion ) of the history of philosophy, that is, a transformation of its language and meaning, that would have made of the existential analytic only a kind of " limit case " ( in the sense in which special relativity is a limit case of general relativity ).

It was Heidegger's original intention to write a second half of the book, consisting of a " Destruktion " of the history of philosophy — that is, the transformation of philosophy by re-tracing its history — but he never completed this project.

There is disagreement over the degree of influence that Husserl had on Heidegger's philosophical development, just as there is disagreement about the degree to which Heidegger's philosophy is grounded in phenomenology.

Despite perceived differences between Eastern and Western philosophy, some of Heidegger's later work, particularly " A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer ", does show an interest in initiating such a dialogue.

Some scholars interested in the relationships between Western philosophy and the history of ideas in Islam and Arabic philosophical medieval sources may have been influenced by Heidegger's work, including recent studies by Nader El-Bizri.

Heidegger's influence on French philosophy began in the 1930s, when Being and Time, " What is Metaphysics?

Derrida, Lacoue-Labarthe, and Jean-François Lyotard, among others, all engaged in debate and disagreement about the relation between Heidegger's philosophy and his Nazi politics.

These debates included the question of whether it was possible to do without Heidegger's philosophy, a position which Derrida in particular rejected.

When in 1987 Víctor Farías published his book Heidegger et le nazisme, this debate was taken up by many others, some of whom were inclined to disparage so-called " deconstructionists " for their association with Heidegger's philosophy.

He understands many of the problems of Heidegger's philosophy and politics as the consequence of Heidegger's inability to integrate the two.

It has surrendered any claims of description in favor of psychological accounts of nothingness, as in Heidegger's system ( 1929 ).

Simone de Beauvoir tries to base an ethics on Heidegger's and Sartre's writings ( The Ethics of Ambiguity ), where she highlights the need to grapple with ambiguity: " as long as philosophers and they have thought, most of them have tried to mask it ... And the ethics which they have proposed to their disciples has always pursued thre same goal.

Heidegger's term referred to a process of exploring the categories and concepts that tradition has imposed on a word, and the history behind them.

Though Marcuse quickly distanced himself from Heidegger following Heidegger's endorsement of Nazism, it has been suggested by thinkers such as Juergen Habermas that an understanding of Marcuse's later thinking demands an appreciation of his early Heideggerian influence.

Recent scholarship has shown that Heidegger was substantially influenced by St. Augustine of Hippo and that Martin Heidegger's Being and Time would not have been possible without the influence of Augustine's thought.

Heidegger's behavior towards Husserl has evoked controversy.

Because Heidegger's discussion of ontology ( the study of being ) is rooted in an analysis of the mode of existence of individual human beings ( Da-sein, or there-being ), his work has often been associated with existentialism.

Because of Derrida's vehement attempts to " rescue " Heidegger from his existentialist interpreters ( and also from Heidegger's " orthodox " followers ), Derrida has at times been represented as a " French Heidegger ", to the extent that he, his colleagues, and his former students are made to go proxy for Heidegger's worst ( political ) mistakes, despite ample evidence that the reception of Heidegger's work by later practitioners of deconstruction is anything but doctrinaire.

More recently, Heidegger's thought has considerably influenced the work of the French philosopher Bernard Stiegler.

Heidegger's influence upon 20th century continental philosophy is unquestioned and has produced a variety of critical responses.

Criticism of Heidegger's philosophy has also come from analytic philosophy, beginning with logical positivism.

Ludwig Wittgenstein made a remark recorded by Friedrich Waismann: " To be sure, I can imagine what Heidegger means by being and anxiety " which has been construed by some commentators as sympathetic to Heidegger's philosophical approach.

Pragmatist Rorty claimed that Heidegger's approach to philosophy in the first half of his career has much in common with that of the latter-day Ludwig Wittgenstein, a significant figure in analytic philosophy.

" Heidegger's use of this fable in casting the female Cura as creator has been seen as an inversion of the equivalent Christian myth, in which woman is created last, with the centrality of Cura as a challenge to the Western concept of self-sufficiency and " atomization " of the individual.

It has also been claimed that much of Heidegger's later philosophy, particularly the sacredness of Being, bears a distinct similarity to Taoist ideas.

The central Husserlian concept of the directedness of all thought — intentionality — for example, while scarcely mentioned in Being and Time, has been identified by some with Heidegger's central notion of " Sorge " ( Cura, care or concern ).