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Heidegger, Martin

Heidegger, Martin (1889–1976)
A German existentialist philosopher, who adopted Edmund Husserl's phenomenological method, in order to investigate the nature of human existence. His most significant work is Being and Time (1926), which was an important influence on post-modernism, and a source for Anthony Giddens's ideas about time and space.

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