The question of the meaning of being.
Die Frage nach dem Sinn von Sein.

Philosophers
Martin Heidegger
German philosopher (1889-1976), among the most influential in twentieth-century continental thought. Being and Time (1927) reopened the question of being via Dasein. His Nazi Party membership remains a controversy.
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