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Heidegger

American  
[hahy-deg-er, -di-ger] / ˈhaɪ dɛg ər, -dɪ gər /

noun

  1. Martin, 1889–1976, German philosopher and writer.


Heidegger British  
/ ˈhaidɛɡər /

noun

  1. Martin (ˈmartiːn). 1889–1976, German existentialist philosopher: he expounded his ontological system in Being and Time (1927)

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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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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