![]() ![]() ![]() James Professor of History, Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Germanic Languages and Literatures, and Faculty Affiliate in the Department of Philosophy at Harvard University. Despite its dark context, Being and Time remains essential reading for engaging with the vexing challenges presented by modernity. The result of this intellectual excavation is his most well known work, Being and Time, published in 1927. Instead of accepting those assumptions, Heidegger wanted to return to the great philosophical texts of the past and see if he could recover and reveal deep truths that had been obscured or forgotten. Heidegger came to believe that many of the modern answers to these questions were based on old, unexamined assumptions. Questions like: Why are we here at all? Why do things exist as they do? What does it mean to be in the world? He was fascinated by the most expansive questions humans can ask themselves. Martin Heidegger did not like small thoughts. ![]()
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