Although it was Sartre who explicitly coined the phrase, similar notions can be found in the thought of existentialist philosophers such as Kierkegaard and Heidegger.

In Derrida's view, deconstruction is a tradition inherited via Heidegger ( the French term " déconstruction " is a term coined to translate Heidegger's use of the words " Destruktion "— literally " destruction "— and " Abbau "— more literally " de-building ").

Though the World Wide Web was invented thirty years after The Gutenberg Galaxy was published, McLuhan may have coined and certainly popularized the usage of the term " surfing " to refer to rapid, irregular and multidirectional movement through a heterogeneous body of documents or knowledge, e. g., statements like " Heidegger surf-boards along on the electronic wave as triumphantly as Descartes rode the mechanical wave.

Martin Heidegger used the term in a slightly different way.

* Being-in-the-world, a term in the existentialist philosophy of Martin Heidegger, aimed at deconstructing the subject-object distinction

In 1945 Heidegger wrote of his term as rector, giving the writing to his son Hermann ; it was published in 1983:

With his Nazi political engagement in 1933, however, Heidegger came out as a champion of the " German Spirit ," and only withdrew from an exalting interpretation of the term in 1952.

Dwelling, in addition to being a term for a house or home for a given period of time, is a philosophical concept which was developed by Martin Heidegger.

It is a term used in early 20th century continental philosophy, especially in the works of Martin Heidegger, Jean-Paul Sartre, Simone de Beauvoir, and the existentialists.

Heidegger chose this term as a synonym for " human entity " in order to emphasize the critical importance " Being " has for our understanding and interpretation of the world.

Due to the drastically different use of the term " Dasein " between the two philosophers, there is often some confusion in students who begin with either Heidegger or Jaspers and subsequently study the other.

In contrast with his former mentor Husserl, Heidegger put ontology before epistemology and thought that phenomenology would have to be based on an observation and analysis of Dasein (" being-there "), human being, investigating the fundamental ontology of the Lebenswelt ( Lifeworld-Husserl's term ) underlying all so-called regional ontologies of the special sciences.

Heidegger uses the expression dasein to refer to the experience of being that is peculiar to human beings.

When Heidegger and Sartre speak of a contrast between being and existence, they may be right, I don't know, but their language is too philosophical for me.

During this period Husserl had delivered lectures on internal time consciousness, which several decades later his former student Heidegger edited for publication.

In the summer of 1929 Husserl had studied carefully selected writings of Heidegger, coming to the conclusion that on several of their key positions they differed, e. g., Heidegger substituted Dasein for the pure ego, thus transforming phenomenology into an anthropology, a specie of psychologism strongly disfavored by Husserl.

They shared their thoughts and worked alongside each other for over a decade at the University of Freiburg, Heidegger being Husserl's assistant during 1920-1923.

This early interest in Heidegger followed Marcuse's demand for “ concrete philosophy ,” which, he declared in 1928, “ concerns itself with the truth of contemporaneous human existence .” These words were directed against the neo-Kantianism of the mainstream, and against both the revisionist and orthodox Marxist alternatives, in which the subjectivity of the individual played little role.

For example, in a letter to the rector of Freiburg University of November 4, 1945, Heidegger, inspired by Jünger, tries to explain the notion of “ God is dead ” as the “ reality of the Will to Power .” Heidegger also praises Jünger for defending Nietzsche against a too biological or anthropological reading during the Third Reich.

Like other contemporary French and Italian philosophers, Vattimo does not want, or only partially wants, to rely on Heidegger for understanding Nietzsche.

Heidegger proposes that our way of being human and the way the world is for us are cast historically through a fundamental ontological questioning.

Instead of resisting the admission of this paradox in the search for understanding, Heidegger requires that we embrace it through an active process of elucidation he called the " Hermeneutic Circle ".

Martin Heidegger (; September 26, 1889May 26, 1976 ) was a German philosopher known for his existential and phenomenological explorations of the " question of Being ".

Writing extensively on Nietzsche in his later career, and offering a " phenomenological critique of Kant " in his Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics, Heidegger is known for his Post-Kantian philosophy.

Heidegger is a controversial figure, largely for his affiliation with the Nazis, for which he never apologized nor expressed regret, except in private when he called it " the biggest stupidity of his life " ( die größte Dummheit seines Lebens ).

Heidegger claimed that Western philosophy since Plato has misunderstood what it means for something " to be ", tending to approach this question in terms of a being, rather than asking about Being itself.

A more authentic analysis of being would, for Heidegger, investigate " that on the basis of which beings are already understood ," or that which underlies all particular entities and allows them to show up as entities in the first place ( see world disclosure ).

Heidegger accepted this charge, stating ' Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy ', and suggesting that intelligibility is what he is critically trying to examine.

Heidegger remained at Freiburg im Breisgau for the rest of his life, declining a number of later offers, including one from Humboldt University of Berlin.

The denazification procedures against Heidegger continued until March 1949, when he was finally pronounced a " Mitläufer " ( literally, mit = with, Läufer = runner, i. e. " one who runs along with ", but the equivalent meaning in English is closer to " bandwagon effect " or " herd instinct ", standing for the notion that people often do and believe things merely because many other people do and believe the same things ) of National Socialism, and no punitive measures against him were proposed.

But for Heidegger, this meant understanding that experience is always already situated in a world and in ways of being.

Heidegger argues that to describe experience properly entails finding the being for whom such a description might matter.

Heidegger thus conducts his description of experience with reference to " Dasein ," the being for whom being is a question.

Dasein, then, is not intended as a way of conducting a philosophical anthropology, but is rather understood by Heidegger to be the condition of possibility for anything like a philosophical anthropology.

Existentialist philosophers such as Sartre, as well as continental philosophers such as Hegel and Heidegger have also written extensively on the concept of being.

Heidegger, in his quest to re-pose the original pre-Socratic question of Being, wondered at how to meaningfully ask the question of the meaning of being, since it is both the greatest, as it includes everything that is, and the least, since no particular thing can be said of it.

Sartre, popularly understood as misreading Heidegger ( an understanding supported by Heidegger's essay " Letter on Humanism " which responds to Sartre's famous address, " Existentialism is a Humanism "), employs modes of being in an attempt to ground his concept of freedom ontologically by distinguishing between being-in-itself and being-for-itself.

Heidegger, amongst others, referred to an innate language as the foundation of being, which gives signal to all aspects of being.

Heidegger, while acknowledging his debt to Husserl, followed a political position offensive and harmful to Husserl after the Nazi regime came to power in 1933, Husserl being of Jewish origin and Heidegger infamously being then a Nazi proponent.

Maurice Merleau-Ponty () ( 14 March 1908 – 3 May 1961 ) was a French phenomenological philosopher, strongly influenced by Karl Marx, Edmund Husserl, and Martin Heidegger in addition to being closely associated with Jean-Paul Sartre ( who later stated he had been " converted " to Marxism by Merleau-Ponty ) and Simone de Beauvoir.

Heidegger distinguished human being as existence from the being of things in the world.

For Heidegger, however, communication in the first place is not among human beings, but language itself shapes up in response to questioning ( the inexhaustible meaning of ) being.

Derrida utilized, like Heidegger, references to Greek philosophical notions associated with the Skeptics and the Presocratics, such as Epoché and Aporia to articulate his notion of implicit circularity between premises and conclusions, origins and manifestations, but-in a manner analogous in certain respects to Gilles Deleuze-presented a radical re-reading of canonical philosophical figures such as Plato, Aristotle and Descartes as themselves being informed by such " destabilizing " notions.

Heidegger maintained that philosophy, in the process of philosophizing, had lost sight of the being it sought.

In other words, Heidegger believed all investigations of being have historically focused on particular entities and their properties, or have treated Being itself as an entity, or substance, with properties.

One crucial source of this insight was Heidegger's reading of Franz Brentano's treatise on Aristotle's manifold uses of the word " being ," a work which provoked Heidegger to ask what kind of unity underlies this multiplicity of uses.

Heidegger opens his magnum opus, Being and Time, with a citation from Plato's Sophist indicating that Western philosophy has neglected " being " because it was considered obvious, rather than as worthy of question.

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.