Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (26 September 1889 – 26 May 1976)^[1] was a German philosopher.

Martin Heidegger
Born	September 26, 1889 Meßkirch, Germany
Died	May 26, 1976(1976-05-26) (aged 86) Freiburg im Breisgau, Germany
Era	20th-century philosophy
Region	Western Philosophy
School	Phenomenology · Hermeneutics · Existentialism · Deconstruction
Main interests	Ontology · Metaphysics · Art · Greek philosophy · Technology · Language · Poetry  · Thinking
Notable ideas	Dasein · Gestell · Heideggerian terminology
Influences Anaximander · Parmenides · Heraclitus · Plato · Aristotle · Duns Scotus · Kant · Hölderlin · Schelling · Hegel · Kierkegaard · Nietzsche · Dilthey · Brentano · Husserl · Rilke  · Trakl  · Jünger
Influenced Strauss · Sartre · Kuki · Merleau-Ponty · Gadamer · Arendt · Marcuse · Foucault · Nancy · Ricoeur · Derrida · Agamben · Vattimo · Borgmann · Stiegler · Lacan · Benoist · Venner

His best known book, Being and Time, is considered one of the most important philosophical works of the 20th century.^[2][3] It is a very difficult book, even for the German reader.

The Mesmerhaus in Meßkirch, where Heidegger grew up

Martin Heidegger´s grave in Meßkirch

Works

In it, and later works, Heidegger maintained that our way of questioning defines our nature. But philosophy, western civilization's chief way of questioning, has lost its way. Finding ourselves "always already" fallen in a world of presuppositions, we lose touch with what being was before its truth became "muddled".^[4] As a solution to this condition, Heidegger advocated a return to practical life in the world, allowing it to reveal, or "unconceal" itself.