On the relation between the two figures, Gadamer wrote: " When asked about phenomenology, Husserl was quite right to answer as he used to in the period directly after World War I: ' Phenomenology, that is me and Heidegger '.

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

Celan visited Heidegger at his country retreat and wrote an enigmatic poem about the meeting, which some interpret as Celan's wish for Heidegger to apologize for his behavior during the Nazi era.

Foucault's relation to Heidegger is a matter of considerable difficulty ; Foucault acknowledged Heidegger as a philosopher whom he read but never wrote about.

Dilthey's student Georg Misch wrote the first extended critical appropriation of Heidegger in Lebensphilosophie und Phänomenologie.

Malik wrote his PhD dissertation about Whitehead, in which Malik compared Whitehead's Metaphysics of Time to that of Martin Heidegger.

Heidegger wrote about boredom in two texts available in English, in the 1929 / 30 semester lecture course The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics, and again in the essay What is Metaphysics?

Heidegger wrote: " We would have to learn to recognize that things themselves are places and do not merely belong to a place ," and that sculpture is thereby "... the embodiment of places.

Also, Martin Heidegger started out his academic career as Rickert's assistant, graduated with him and then wrote his habilitation thesis under Rickert.

There are parallels between speculative grammar and phenomenology, a fact that was picked up early on by Martin Heidegger, who wrote his first book, Die Kategorien-und Bedeutungslehre des Duns Scotus, on Thomas of Erfurt's treatise ( at that time still mistakenly attributed to Duns Scotus ).

As Martin Heidegger once wrote,

Figures engaged in technocritical scholarship and theory include Donna Haraway and Bruno Latour ( who work in the closely related field of science studies ), N. Katherine Hayles ( who works in the field of Literature and Science ), Phil Agree and Mark Poster ( who works in intellectual history ), Marshall McLuhan and Friedrich Kittler ( who work in the closely related field of media studies ), Susan Squier and Richard Doyle ( who work in the closely related field of medical sociology ), and Hannah Arendt, Walter Benjamin, Martin Heidegger, and Michel Foucault ( who sometimes wrote about the philosophy of technology ).

Beaufret engaged Heidegger on the development of French existentialism, and Heidegger wrote the " Brief über den Humanismus " (" Letter on Humanism ") to Beaufret in response.

Jean-François Lyotard, one of the group of students on the trip selected to visit Heidegger, wrote about the experience thus:

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.

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.

Heidegger was one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century, and his ideas have penetrated into many areas, but in France there is a very long and particular history of reading and interpreting his work.

Even though Heidegger is considered by many observers to be the most influential philosopher of the 20th century in continental philosophy, aspects of his work have been criticised by those who nevertheless acknowledge this influence, such as Hans-Georg Gadamer and Jacques Derrida.

All of these writers can be traced back to earlier philosophical writings, most notably in the phenomenological tradition, such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty and Heidegger.

Although studying an array of subjects at the school, Foucault's particular interest was soon drawn to philosophy, reading not only the works of Hegel and Marx that he had been exposed to by Hyppolite but also studying the writings of the philosophers Immanuel Kant ( 1724 – 1804 ), Edmund Husserl ( 1859 – 1938 ) and most significantly, Martin Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ).

The most prominent figure among the existentialists is Jean-Paul Sartre whose ideas in his book Being and Nothingness ( L ' être et le néant ) are heavily influenced by Being and Time ( Sein und Zeit ) of Martin Heidegger, although Heidegger later stated that he was misunderstood by Sartre.

An answer to the question, What is phenomenology ?, from a student of both Husserl and Heidegger and one of the most important phenomenologists of the latter half of the twentieth century.

It was then transformed by Martin Heidegger ( 1889 – 1976 ), whose famous book Being and Time applied phenomenology to ontology, and who, along with Ludwig Wittgenstein, is considered one of the most influential philosophers of the 20th century.

No longer was it conceived of as being about understanding linguistic communication, or providing a methodological basis for the human sciences-as far as Heidegger was concerned, hermeneutics is ontology, dealing with the most fundamental conditions of man's being in the world.

In the introduction, Sartre sketches his own theory of consciousness, being, and phenomena through criticism of both earlier phenomenologists ( most notably Husserl and Heidegger ) as well as idealists, rationalists, and empiricists.

In the lecture, Heidegger included about 100 pages on boredom, probably the most extensive philosophical treatment ever of the subject.

Others, such as Martin Heidegger, among the most prominent German philosophers to stay in Germany, embraced Nazism when it came to power.

From the early 20th century until the 1960s, continental philosophers were only intermittently discussed in British and American universities, despite an influx of continental philosophers, particularly German Jewish students of Nietzsche and Heidegger, to the United States on account of the persecution of the Jews and later World War II ; Hannah Arendt, Leo Strauss, Theodor W. Adorno, and Walter Kaufmann are probably the most notable of this wave, arriving in the late 1930s and early 1940s.

Rahner would claim St. Thomas Aquinas as the most important influence on his thought, but also spoke highly of Heidegger as " my teacher ," and in his elder years Heidegger used to visit Rahner regularly in Freiburg ‎.

However, this critique of metaphysics, carried on by the first Wittgenstein, in his 1921 Tractatus Logico-Philosophicus, for example, has been in return criticized by philosophers, such as Heidegger in his 1927 Being and Time, as a form of positivism or, worse, scientism, which is accused of having decided to abandon the most important questions about humanity and the Being, under the pretext that no definitive answer can be brought to them.

Generally, most were strongly influenced by the German philosophical tradition, especially the thought of Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Heidegger.

In other words, whereas Heidegger calls the being of persons ' Dasein ', he determines ' Being in itself ' to be at the same time the most vague and general concept possible to contemplate, but also the topic of greatest interest to him as a philosopher.

The word Dasein has been used by several philosophers before Heidegger, most notably Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel, with the meaning of human " existence " or " presence ".

Although written quickly, and despite the fact that Heidegger never completed the project outlined in the introduction, it remains his most important work and has profoundly influenced 20th-century philosophy, particularly existentialism, hermeneutics and deconstruction.

According to Heidegger, it is the burden imposed by the question of eternal recurrence — whether or not such a thing could possibly be true — that is so significant in modern thought: " The way Nietzsche here patterns the first communication of the thought of the ' greatest burden ' eternal recurrence makes it clear that this ' thought of thoughts ' is at the same time ' the most burdensome thought.

In calling his work Being and Nothingness an " essay in phenomenological ontology " Jean-Paul Sartre follows Heidegger in defining the human essence as ambiguous, or relating fundamentally to such ambiguity.

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.

Heidegger coined the term " dasein " for this property of being in his influential work Being and Time (" this entity which each of us is himself … we shall denote by the term ' dasein.

* Heidegger, Being and Time

More recently, Martin Heidegger used " lēthē " to symbolize the " concealment of Being " or " forgetting of Being " that he saw as a major problem of modern philosophy.

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.

In his Nihilism as Determined by the History of Being ( 1944 – 46 ), Heidegger tries to understand Nietzsche ’ s nihilism as trying to achieve a victory through the devaluation of the, until then, highest values.

One of Heidegger ’ s main critiques on philosophy is that philosophy, and more specifically metaphysics, has forgotten to discriminate between investigating the notion of a Being ( Seiende ) and Being ( Sein ).

And because metaphysics has forgotten to ask about the notion of Being ( what Heidegger calls Seinsvergessenheit ), it is a history about the destruction of Being.

Influential to thinkers associated with Postmodernism are Heidegger's critique of the subject-object or sense-knowledge division implicit in Rationalism, Empiricism and Methodological Naturalism, his repudiation of the idea that facts exist outside or separately from the process of thinking and speaking them ( however, Heidegger is not specifically a Nominalist ), his related admission that the possibilities of philosophical and scientific discourse are wrapped up in the practices and expectations of a society and that concepts and fundamental constructs are the expression of a lived, historical exercise rather than simple derivations of external, apriori conditions independent from historical mind and changing experience ( see Johann Gottlieb Fichte, Heinrich von Kleist, Weltanschauung and Social Constructionism ), and his Instrumentalist and Negativist notion that Being ( and, by extension, reality ) is an action, method, tendency, possibility and question rather than a discreet, positive, identifiable state, answer or entity ( see also Process Philosophy, Dynamism, Instrumentalism, Pragmatism and Vitalism ).

Martin Heidegger, author of Being and Time ( 1927 ).

Heidegger published one of the cornerstones of 20th century philosophy during this period, Being and Time ( 1927 ).

* Martin Heidegger – philosopher ( Being and Time )

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

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.

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.

In 1927, Heidegger published his main work Sein und Zeit ( Being and Time ).

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.

In Being and Time, Heidegger criticized the abstract and metaphysical character of traditional ways of grasping human existence as rational animal, person, man, soul, spirit, or subject.

That Heidegger did not write this second part of Being and Time, and that the existential analytic was left behind in the course of Heidegger's subsequent writings on the history of being, might be interpreted as a failure to conjugate his account of individual experience with his account of the vicissitudes of the collective human adventure that he understands the Western philosophical tradition to be.