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Letter on Humanism
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Heidegger’s later essay reconsiders humanism, language and the relation to being. Its retrospective account does not settle the history of his development.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 9 of 12
Truth before a true statement?
For Heidegger, a statement can be correct only where something has already been disclosed. Setting a defense by Wrathall beside an objection from Lafont, the lesson asks how a framework of understanding can itself answer to criticism.
Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 10 of 12
When art opens a world
In The Origin of the Work of Art, Heidegger describes a temple that opens a world, where world and earth stand in strife. The lesson also compares his accounts of language and shows why shared meanings still leave factual and ethical questions to be answered.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits
Begin with familiar encounters and follow Heidegger’s questions about being, a finite life, truth, art, dwelling and technology. Examine what the arguments explain, what they leave open and how they fare under political and ethical criticism.