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Philosophers of the past forty years have promulgated their reading of Heidegger as an Existentialist. Some have ventured into those nebulous areas to cultivate etymological analyses; others have drifted into a Wagnerian mist of imprecision. Comparatist techniques show that Heidegger’s literary roots are firmly embedded in Expressionism — not Existentialism — and that Dasein is a literary persona, that Heidegger’s discussion of signs abandons the imagery of perennial philosophy for the “ready-to-hand,” a clearly Expressionist technique. Heidegger’s Being and Time clearly states Expressionist philosophy with the characteristically Expressionist concern for contemporaneity and interiority intact.
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Moriarty, M.E. (1990). Expressionist Signs and Metaphors in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time . In: Kronegger, M. (eds) Phenomenology and Aesthetics. Analecta Husserliana, vol 32. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2027-9_5
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