Martin Heidegger

(1889 –1976)

German philosopher- regarded as one of the most important philosophers of the 20th century.

Phenomenology: study of the structures of experience and consciousness.

Hermeneutics: methods of textual interpretations

Existentialism: study of problem of human existence and centres on the lived experience of the thinking, feeling, acting of individuals

Wrote

1. Being and Time - 1927- his philosophy of being- “Dasein”- experience of being peculiar to human