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Re:Heidegger, the homesick philosopher by osullivj on Friday September 13, 2019 @06:49AM (#20960896)
Heidegger perpetrated nonsense like "Das Nichts selbst nichtet" (The Nothing itself nihilates) [1], which positivists and empiricists rightly disdained. Obviously I am firmly in the analytic camp. If you like a bit of mysticism in your philosophy the later Wittgenstein is your man, especially his thoughts on language games, intersubjectivity and forms of life. A far more incisive set of philosophical tools for understanding notions of community and place than Heidegger's Blut und Boden bluster. IMHO of course!

[1] https://maverickphilosopher.typepad.com/maverick_philosopher...

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Re:Heidegger, the homesick philosopher by coldtea on Friday September 13, 2019 @09:58AM (#20962187)
>Obviously I am firmly in the analytic camp

Obviously. But it's not the only camp, nor it's some settled question. It's just the most popular in anglosaxon countries...

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Re:Heidegger, the homesick philosopher by joe_the_user on Friday September 13, 2019 @04:15PM (#20966046)
Heidegger's mysticism has been critic from a number of angles over the years. Theador Adorno's The Jargon Of Authenticity attacked him from a Marxist and so "continental" perspective.

It's notable that Heidegger isn't simply "continental" but specifically taken to be within the "existentialist" branch of philosophy and thus he's been critiqued (and taken up) by a variety of other perspectives.

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