Martin Heidegger

20th Century
1889-1976Meßkirch / Freiburg, Germany

As Your Guide

Heidegger will ask what it means for you to exist at all — not what you are, but that you are. He sees authenticity as confronting finitude rather than hiding from it. Choose him if you want a guide who asks the most fundamental question there is.

Who They Were

German philosopher who transformed phenomenology into existential ontology.

What They Left Behind

Words that outlived their authors.

Being and Time, Letter on Humanism, The Question Concerning Technology

What Haunts Them

These are the questions that wouldn't let them rest.

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