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In this Heidegger Thinking Substack article, we engage with Heidegger's existential analysis of Death. We hope you'll anxiously join us in this extremely important analysis!

This is a course on Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (1927) taught deliberately through one interpreter’s eyes: Simon Critchley, who has taught the book continuously since 1989 and whose reading has a definite shape. You will learn Heidegger’s book whole — all of it, both divisions, not the highlights — but you will learn it as Critchley reads it: Being and Time as a book about meaning and finitude rather than mystical “Being”; average everydayness as the place where philosophy begins and ends; anxiety as a calm to be used, not a disorder to be medicated; and, in the closing arc, Critchley’s own turns against Heidegger — the relational character of finitude, originary inauthenticity, the ontology of weakness, and the reckoning with paragraph 74 and 1933. Where the course states a controversial view, it is Critchley’s view, and the tests examine it as such.

Truth! Information! Misinformation! Read all about these topics in the latest Heidegger Thinking article: 'Truth".

In this Heidegger Thinking article, we cover the notion of reality. Included subtopics:

• Heidegger's relationship to idealism & realism, especially the idealism of Kant
• Traditional western metaphysical reality vs. Heidegger's phenomenological & existential reality
• The lack of security of phenomenology and the ensuing anxiety it provokes
• The choice between embracing anxiety vs. the fall back into inauthentic life

We are interested in hearing your thoughts on this topic of reality! Do you agree with Heidegger? What do you take reality to be/mean? Let us know and we will engage in discussion with you!

In this article, we tackle the ever-so-discussed topic of anxiety from a Heideggerian perspective.

Do you think you understand the world in which you live? We do. Read about why in the new Heidegger Thinking Substack article.

We're talking about the disorientation of thrown-ness and the possibility constitutive of projection in this new Heidegger Thinking Substack article!

The next installment of the Critchley on Heidegger Substack series!