Heidegger Thinkers of our Time

"Martin Heidegger (1889-1976) is one of the most influential and controversial of modern thinkers. Notorious alike for his dense philosophical style and his ill-considered flirtation with Nazi politics, he might have been consigned to the dust-heap of history were it not for the widespread opinion that he is trying to say something important for the modern world. His influence is felt in the philosophies of Sartre, Merleau-Ponty and Gadamer, in the poetry of Celan, in the plays of Havel, in the novels of Durrenmat and Hesse, and in the art and music of post-war Germany. His essays have inspired conservatives and Marxists alike."
"David E. Cooper is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Durham. He has been President (or Chair) of the Aristotelian Society, the Mind Association, the Friedrich Nietzsche Society, and the Philosophy of Education Society of Great Britain and has been a visiting Professor at universities in the USA, Canada, Germany and South Africa. His previous works include <i>Existentialism: A Reconstruction and World Philosophies: an historical introduction</i>."@en