Heidegger
Americannoun
noun
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Heidegger became known as the master of the revels.
From The Wall Street Journal • May 22, 2026
In the spirit of Johnson’s anecdote about Heidegger, I’ve often recalled that, in his diaries, Kafka reports sitting in a bar in Prague with his friend Max Brod after they’d left an opera.
From New York Times • Jan. 11, 2023
Heidegger proposed that abstract ideas don’t reveal much about being since they are not in the world.
From Textbooks • Jun. 15, 2022
As longtime fans might expect, behind the prose lies a wealth of hardcover learning, from the Bible and the Augsburg Book of Miracles to Nietzsche, Kierkegaard and Heidegger.
From Los Angeles Times • Sep. 22, 2021
All the rooms in the Hotel Filosoof were named after filosoofers: Mom and I were staying on the ground floor in the Kierkegaard; Augustus was on the floor above us, in the Heidegger.
From "The Fault in Our Stars" by John Green
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