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Languages & Literature
Pakistan
World & History
1889 – 1976
Existentialism and phenomenology, Being and Time
Heidegger set aside traditional questions about what kinds of things exist to ask a more fundamental one: what does it even mean for something to "be"? He analysed human existence (which he called Dasein) as a being that finds itself already "thrown" into a world and circumstances it did not choose, whose awareness of its own eventual death gives its choices and existence their urgency and authenticity.
German philosopher whose brief but documented membership in and support for the Nazi Party has made him one of philosophy's most controversial major figures.