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Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889May 26, 1976), German philosopher, attempted to reorient Western philosophy away from metaphysical and epistemological and toward ontological questions, that is, questions concerning the meaning of being, or what it means "to be". Heidegger also challenged the idea of phenomenology as defined by his teacher Edmund Husserl and is regarded as a major influence on existentialism, deconstruction, hermeneutics and postmodernism. The scope of Heidegger's work informed and influenced many other thinkers such as Maurice Merleau-Ponty, Jean-Paul Sartre, Jacques Derrida, Michel Foucault, Jean-Luc Nancy, and Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe. Heidegger's notable readers included Hans-Georg Gadamer, Hans Jonas, Emmanuel Levinas, Hannah Arendt, Herbert Marcuse, Xavier Zubiri and Karl Löwith. His status as a prominent academic member of the Nazi Party led to later criticism of not only his political thought but his entire philosophical outlook.

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Heidegger was born in rural Messkirch, Germany. Raised a Roman Catholic, his father was the sexton of the village church. His family could not afford to send him to university so he entered a Jesuit seminary instead. After studying theology at the University of Freiburg from 1909 to 1911, he switched to philosophy. Heidegger received his Ph.D. in 1914 with a thesis on Psychologism, and the venia legendi in Philosophy with a Habilitation thesis on Duns Scotus in 1916. From 1916 to 1917, he was an unsalaried Privatdozent, then served as a soldier during the last year of World War I, working behind a desk and never leaving Germany. After the war, he served as a salaried senior assistant to Edmund Husserl at the University of Freiburg until 1923. During this time, he built his mountain cabin, the Hütte, in Todtnauberg in the nearby Schwarzwald (Black Forest). In 1923, he was elected to an extraordinary Professorship (full professor but without a Chair) in Philosophy at the equally reputable but very Protestant University of Marburg. At Marburg his colleagues included Rudolf Bultmann, Ernst Friedländer, Nicolai Hartmann, and Paul Natorp, and his notable students, Hans-Georg Gadamer, Karl Löwith, Gerhard Krüger, Leo Strauss, and his mistress, Hannah Arendt.

When Husserl retired in 1928, Heidegger having published Sein und Zeit the previous year, accepted Freiburg's election to be his successor, in spite of a counter-offer by Marburg. Heidegger remained at Freiburg for the rest of his life, declining a number of later offers including one from Berlin, the most prestigious German university of the day. Among his students at Freiburg was Herbert Marcuse.

After Hitler's rise to power, Heidegger became a member of the NSDAP (Nazi party) in 1933. He was appointed Rector of the University and his inaugural address, his "Rektoratsrede," became notorious. He resigned the Rectorship in 1934, but never resigned from the Nazi party. From 1945-1947, the French Occupation Authority forbade him to teach because of his Nazi past, a decision rescinded in 1951 when he became Professor emeritus with all privileges. He then taught regularly from 1951 and 1958 and by invitation until 1967. He died May 26, 1976 and was buried in the Meßkirch cemetery.

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マルティン・ハイデッガー (ハイデガー)(Martin Heidegger, 1889年9月26日 - 1976年5月26日)は、ドイツの哲学者。初め神学を学ぶが、哲学に専攻を変更。1913年に学位論文『心理学主義の判断論──論理学へ... http://bit.ly/oxRRe
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マルティン・ハイデッガー (ハイデガー)(Martin Heidegger, 1889年9月26日 - 1976年5月26日)は、ドイツの哲学者。初め神学を学ぶが、哲学に専攻を変更。1913年に学位論文『心理学主義の判断論──論理学へ... http://bit.ly/oxRRe
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