Generic Heidegger Thread

[Angrboda]

Heidegger?? Heidegger?? That's two diggities too many!


I read a 100 page primer on Heidegger in preparation for a philosophy discussion recently, and while I doubt I'll return to him anytime soon, I was very impressed. I would say that he is the most important existentialist philosopher, and is certainly one of the twentieth century's most important. (A poll of philosophers as to the most important philosophers of the past 200 years put him at number 16. [] Though I think a mistake in many of these lists is to overlook the pivotal role played by Husserl.)