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Martin Heidegger (1889-) as a Phenomenologist

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Part of the book series: Phaenomenologica ((PHAE,volume 5))

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The name of Martin Heidegger overshadows the present scene not only of German but also of Continental and Spanish-American philosophy. This very fact implies an enigma, at least to the Anglo-American world. What can account for the still growing fascination with a thinker of Heidegger’s type? Certainly not the volume of his published production. Besides, his largest work, Sein und Zeit, is a torso, and according to his own recent announcement it will for ever remain so. Yet it confronts its reader with a language and a style of thinking more demanding, if not actually forbidding, than most other philosophy, present or past. And while some of the circumstances surrounding Heidegger’s way of life are highly unconventional compared with those of the typical German university philosopher, neither his personality nor his appearance are sufficient to account for his impact on the academic and non-academic world.

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Spiegelberg, H. (1960). Martin Heidegger (1889-) as a Phenomenologist. In: The Phenomenological Movement. Phaenomenologica, vol 5. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-5920-5_7

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