The Freedom, Emerging From Being

Mat in Heidegger, Germen Philosopher. He is probably the most divisive philosopher of 20th century, being an acknowledged leader and central figure to many (continental)philosophers, and either a convenient example of meaningless metaphysics. Heidegger was born in Baden, and educated at Freiburg in the phenomenological tradition of Husserl.His most important work, Sein und Zeit (tra Being and Time) was published in 1927, clears the space for the quest for Being that informs Heidegger' s work. Modern humanity has lost the nearness and shelter of Being; we are no longer at home; truth is no longer revealed; thought is separated from Being and only a favoured themes, and especially belief in the possibility of escaping from metapysics and returning into an anthentic communion with independent nature, were commonplaces of German Romanticism, but Heidegger reworked them in a way that caught the 20th century imagination. Freedom, existence in the world, inauthenticcity, dread, guilt, and destiny therefore become the major themes. In his later work Heidegger become more influence is due at least in part to his criticism of modernity and democracy, which he associates with a lack of respect for nature independent of the uses to which human beings put it.