German philosopher (1889–1976)
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He asked what "being" means—not what exists, but what makes anything intelligible as what it is—and with that question rewrote the grammar of twentieth-century thought. His 1933 embrace of Nazism, never publicly repudiated, ensures the arguments over his work never separate from the arguments over the man.
Heidegger published Being and Time in 1927, introducing Dasein—"being-there"—to describe how humans already understand existence before they theorize it, living always as "being-in-the-world." He believed Western philosophy had forgotten the question that mattered: not what things are, but what lets them show up as intelligible at all. In April 1933 he became rector of Freiburg and joined the Nazi Party, remaining a member until 1945. After the war he was banned from teaching during denazification, the ban lifted in 1949, but he never offered clear remorse. His later writing turned to technolo…
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The Geschick of being: a child that plays... Why does it play, the great child of the world-play Heraclitus brought into view in the aiôn? It plays, because it plays.
Everywhere we remain unfree and chained to technology, whether we passionately affirm or deny it.
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It is said that "being" is the most universal and the emptiest concept. As such it resists every attempt at definition.
Every questioning is a seeking. Every seeking takes its direction beforehand from what is sought. Questioning is a knowing search for beings in their thatness and whatness.
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