In “Time of the Magicians,” Wolfram Eilenberger tells the story of four philosophers — Wittgenstein, Benjamin, Cassirer and Heidegger — who altered the way we see reality. By John Kaag Wolfram ...

CHICAGO, IL / ACCESSWIRE / June 17, 2020 / During these challenging times of uncertainty and disruption, we are spending many hours with our attention on what's no longer available to us and what ...

“We knew that he had expressed anti-Semitism as private insights, but this shows anti-Semitism tied in to his philosophy,” says Peter Trawny, director of the Martin Heidegger Institute at the U. of ...

An empirical test of ideas proposed by Martin Heidegger shows the great German philosopher to be correct: Everyday tools really do become part of ourselves. The findings come from a deceptively simple ...

Last spring, the Frankfurt-based publisher Vittorio Klostermann released the first three volumes (out of a projected eight) of Martin Heidegger’s Black Notebooks, a philosophical diary that the ...

For Martin Heidegger, truth stood in relation to thinking as a contemplative activity of un-covering the character of Being lost to misrepresentations amassed over time. As these letters reveal, ...

The song is a 60’s classic: “Riders On The Storm”. We’ve heard it a thousand times. But do many people know it may well be associated with the thinking of a modern German metaphysical philosopher? Jim ...

“Why is there something instead of nothing,” asked philosopher Martin Heidegger, and he asked it again and again throughout his life. But, considering his at times nearly incomprehensible response to ...

It was in the nature of 19th century German philosophers to tackle the big questions of God, time and being head on. Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was one of the ...