To try and compress 437 dense pages of Being and Time into eight brief blogs was obviously a difficult exercise from the start. But, I must admit, this was also part of the attraction. Despite the ...

2 Australian filmmakers tour the Danube to unlock the mysteries of one of the 20th century’s most influential thinkers What are viewers to make of a three-hour film about the German philosopher Martin ...

"The clock marches on forever: it is our own time, however, which is running out." An introduction to the philosopher's ruminations on authentic being and time. Consider a football game that has no ...

After the existential drama of Heidegger's notion of being-towards-death, why do we need a discussion of conscience? As so often in Being and Time, Heidegger insists that although his description of ...

German philosopher Martin Heidegger gets a lot of bad press. And for good reason. He was an enthusiastic supporter of the Nazis, he did and said and wrote some nasty things before and after serving as ...