Martin Heidegger

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born

September 26, 1889 in Meßkirch, Germany

died

May 26, 1976

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http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/heidegger/

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Philosophy

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Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher whose work is perhaps most readily associated with phenomenology and existentialism, although his thinking should be identified as part of such philosophical movements only with extreme care and qualification. His ideas have exerted a seminal influence on the development of contemporary European philosophy. They have also had an impact far beyond philosophy, for example in architectural theory (see e.g., Sharr 2007), literary criticism (see e.g., Ziarek 1989), theology (see e.g., Caputo 1993), psychotherapy (see e.g., Binswanger 1943/1964, Guignon 1993) and cognitive science (see e.g., Dreyfus 1992, 2008; Wheeler 2005; Kiverstein and Wheeler forthcoming).

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	Being and Time by Martin Heidegger, John MacQuarrie (Translator), Edward Robinson (Translator) 3.95 avg rating — 3,707 ratings — published 1927 — 22 editions	My rating:
	Basic Writings by Martin Heidegger, David Farrell Krell (Editor, Introduction) 3.98 avg rating — 938 ratings — published 1964 — 8 editions	My rating:
	Poetry, Language, Thought 4.12 avg rating — 776 ratings — published 1971 — 3 editions	My rating:
	Introduction to Metaphysics by Martin Heidegger, Richard Polt (Translator), Gregory Fried (Translator) 3.90 avg rating — 578 ratings — published 1958 — 8 editions	My rating:
	The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays by Martin Heidegger, William Lovitt (Translator) 4.15 avg rating — 411 ratings — published 1938 — 3 editions	My rating:
	What Is Called Thinking? by Martin Heidegger, Jesse Glenn Gray (Translator, Introduction), Fred Dernburg Wieck (Translator) 4.08 avg rating — 295 ratings — published 1976 — 10 editions	My rating:
	On the Way to Language by Martin Heidegger, Peter D. Hertz (Translator) 4.05 avg rating — 172 ratings — published 1982 — 4 editions	My rating:
	Nietzsche, Volumes 1&2 by Martin Heidegger, David Farrell Krell 4.14 avg rating — 153 ratings — published 1991 — 2 editions	My rating:
	Discourse on Thinking by Martin Heidegger, J.M. Anderson (Translator), E. Hans Freund (Translator) 3.79 avg rating — 129 ratings — published 1959 — 4 editions	My rating:
	The Basic Problems of Phenomenology, Revised Edition by Martin Heidegger, Albert Hofstadter (Translator) 4.24 avg rating — 102 ratings — published 1975 — 4 editions	My rating:

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“Making itself intelligible is suicide for philosophy.”
― Martin Heidegger

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“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”
― Martin Heidegger

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“Why is love beyond all measure of other human possibilities so rich and such a sweet burden for the one who has been struck by it? Because we change ourselves into that which we love, and yet remain ourselves. Then we would like to thank the beloved, but find nothing that would do it adequately. We can only be thankful to ourselves. Love transforms gratitude into faithfulness to ourselves and into an unconditional faith in the Other. Thus love steadily expands its most intimate secret. Closeness here is existence in the greatest distance from the other- the distance that allows nothing to dissolve - but rather presents the “thou” in the transparent, but “incomprehensible” revelation of the “just there”. That the presence of the other breaks into our own life - this is what no feeling can fully encompass. Human fate gives itself to human fate, and it is the task of pure love to keep this self-surrender as vital as on the first day.”
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