Martin Heidegger
20th Century1889-1976Meßkirch / 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.
Being-in-the-worldDaseinauthenticitythrownnesstechnology critique