Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was a German philosopher who recast the question of being through human existence, temporality, language, art, and technology. Being and Time analyzes existence as being-in-the-world and develops accounts of everydayness, anxiety, death, authenticity, and time; its unfinished structure still marks the central threshold of his thought. Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics reads Kant through finitude and ontology. Basic Writings from Being and Time (1927) to The Task of Thinking (1964) offers a broader selection across the early and later periods, while Mindfulness belongs to the difficult path of his being-historical thinking. Being and Time is indispensable but demanding. Readers seeking orientation can use Basic Writings to compare periods before returning to the major work; Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics is most useful once the problem of finitude is already clear.