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.

This has led scholars to argue that Heidegger still supported the Nazi party in 1935 but that he did not want to admit this after the war, and so he attempted to silently correct his earlier statement.

The so-called Heidegger controversy raises general questions about the relation between Heidegger's thought and his connection to National Socialism.

Heidegger was elected rector of the University on April 21, 1933, and joined the National Socialist German Workers ' ( Nazi ) Party on May 1.

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.

In the published version, Heidegger refers to the " inner truth and greatness " of the National Socialist movement ( die innere Wahrheit und Größe dieser Bewegung ), but he then adds a qualifying statement in parentheses: " namely, the confrontation of planetary technology and modern humanity " ( nämlich die Begegnung der planetarisch bestimmten Technik und des neuzeitlichen Menschen ).

For instance, in a 1942 lecture, published posthumously, Heidegger said of recent German classics scholarship: " In the majority of ' research results ,' the Greeks appear as pure National Socialists.

An important witness to Heidegger's continued allegiance to National Socialism during the post-rectorship period is his former student Karl Löwith, who met Heidegger in 1936 while Heidegger was visiting Rome.

Löwith also recalled that Heidegger " left no doubt about his faith in Hitler ", and stated that his support for National Socialism was in agreement with the essence of his philosophy.

In the interview, Heidegger defended his entanglement with National Socialism in two ways: first, he argued that there was no alternative, saying that he was trying to save the university ( and science in general ) from being politicized and thus had to compromise with the Nazi administration.

The Löwith account from 1936 has been cited to contradict the account given in the Der Spiegel interview in two ways: that there he did not make any decisive break with National Socialism in 1934, and that Heidegger was willing to entertain more profound relations between his philosophy and political involvement.

Celan had read Heidegger beginning in 1951, and exclamation marks in his margin notes testify to an awareness that Heidegger had allowed his remarks on the " greatness " of National Socialism in the 1953 edition of Introduction to Metaphysics to stand without further comment.

Beaufret is considered the wellspring of " orthodox French Heideggerianism ," which was the element of French philosophy that was most dismissive of Heidegger's involvement with National Socialism after the French publication in 1987 of Victor Farias's Heidegger and Nazism.

Yet, because of his political commitment to National Socialism in 1933, when he assumed the position of Rector of Freiburg University in south-western Germany, Heidegger continues to arouse controversy, polemic and much heated misunderstanding: How could arguably the greatest philosopher of the 20th century also have been a Nazi?

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.

The University of Freiburg, where Heidegger was Rector from April 21, 1933, to April 23, 1934

Heidegger was elected rector of the University of Freiburg on April 21, 1933, and assumed the position the following day.

Heidegger became Rector of the University of Freiburg on April 22, 1933.

* Martin Heidegger, philosopher, Rector of University of Freiburg ( 1933 / 34 )

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.

He became an Associate Professor in 1933 ( Shōwa 8 ); and in that same year, he published the first book length study of Martin Heidegger to appear in Japanese.

In 1933, Heidegger joined the German Nazi party, which Jonas took personally as he was of Jewish descent and an active Zionist.

The phenomenological approach to religion developed in Gerardus van der Leeuw ’ s Phänomenologie der Religion ( 1933 ) follows Kristensen in many respects, while also appropriating the phenomenology of Martin Heidegger and the hermeneutics of Wilhelm Dilthey.

She studied with Martin Heidegger and Karl Jaspers, leaving Germany in 1933.

Yet his colleague Heidegger was elected Rektor of the university on April 21 – 22, and joined the Nazi party.

It was also rumoured that his former pupil and Nazi Party member, Martin Heidegger, informed Husserl that he was discharged, but it was actually the former rector.

He was at first impressed with Heidegger and began a book on him, but broke off the project when Heidegger became involved with the Nazis.

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.

He returned to Freiburg in 1928 to study with Edmund Husserl and write a Habilitation with Martin Heidegger, which was published in 1932 as Hegel's Ontology and Theory of Historicity.

Sartre was influenced by many aspects of Western philosophy, adopting ideas from Immanuel Kant, Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, among others.

The 20th century philosopher Heidegger thought previous philosophers have lost sight of the question of Being ( qua Being ) in favour of the questions of beings ( existing things ), so that a return to the Parmenidean approach was needed.

Among the most radical re-thinkers of human self-consciousness was Heidegger, whose concept of Dasein or " Being-there " displaces traditional notions of the personal subject altogether.

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.

As early as the 1930s, Heidegger was giving lectures on Nietzsche ’ s thought.

Such a conclusion led Heidegger to depart from the Phenomenology of his teacher Husserl and prompt instead an ( ironically anachronistic ) return to the yet-unasked questions of Ontology, a return that in general did not acknowledge an intrinsic distinction between phenomena and noumena or between things in themselves ( de re ) and things as they appear ( see qualia ): Being-in-the-world, or rather, the openness to the process of Dasein's / Being's becoming was to bridge the age-old gap between these two.

Beginning as a critique of Continental philosophy, it was heavily influenced by phenomenology, structuralism and existentialism, including writings of Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, and Martin Heidegger.

It was greatly influenced by the writings of Søren Kierkegaard and Friedrich Nietzsche in the 19th century and other early-to-mid 20th-century philosophers, including phenomenologists Edmund Husserl and Martin Heidegger, psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, structuralist Roland Barthes, and the language / logic philosopher, Ludwig Wittgenstein.

Whitehead's thinking here has given rise to process theology, whose prominent advocates include Charles Hartshorne, John B. Cobb, Jr., and Hans Jonas, who was also influenced by the non-theological philosopher Martin Heidegger.

Germany's most influential philosopher during the Weimar Republic years, and perhaps of the 20th century, was Martin Heidegger.

During his 20s, Herbert Marcuse was a student in Freiburg, where he went to study under Martin Heidegger, one of Germany's most prominent philosophers.

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

Heidegger was born in rural Meßkirch, Germany.

Raised a Roman Catholic, he was the son of the sexton of the village church, Friedrich Heidegger, and his wife Johanna, née Kempf.

In 1923, Heidegger was elected to an extraordinary Professorship in Philosophy at the University of Marburg.