Other Heidegger Pages:

Ereignis
Heidegger Deconstructed

German Martin Heidegger adopted Husserl's phenomenological method to rediscover the immediate experience, throwing out preconceived epistemological and logical notions of the seperation between consciousness and the external world. For Heidegger, these misconceived and misunderstood notions were unified. The everyday existence in the world was one of participation and involvement. Action and knowledge are inseperable. This everyday existence is communal in public space which begs for an "authentic" way of everyday doings in a way that celebrates the unique of that everyday experience rather than the "inauthentic" objectification of other's experience.Time is also treated in this way as we experience time in terms of moments of interdeterminate length, as inseperable phases of existence both past, future and present. Each phase is as "real" as the present, objective time of discrete measured moments.

The following original works further illucidate Heidegger's pragmatic, existential phenomenology:

Introduction to Heidegger
What is Metaphysics?
The Concept Of World
Heidegger's Models of Heroic Experience

Some Critiques of Heidegger

Hubert Dreyfus on Heidegger
William Blatner on Heidegger

For more overview of Heidegger's thoughts, check out the links below or read the Disabled Body Theory on the previous page.