Ahmad Fardid was born in Yazd, central Iran, in 1910. He taught philosophy for decades at the University of Tehran without ...

His books include Heidegger and Transcendence, Nietzscheian World and Us, Heidegger in Iran, We and Postmodernism, and works on Shariati, political philosophy, and Iranian intellectual history .

Martin Heidegger, the much celebrated and much maligned German philosopher, is back in the news. As it turns out, his Naziism and anti-Semitism run far deeper than originally thought (we already knew ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A fallacy is an error of reasoning. Perhaps the most common one is the fallacy of argumentum ad ...

Starting with his own several memoirs, Martin Heidegger’s biography has been inscribed in a large number of unreliable texts—fitting, it has been suggested, for his objections to the more stable ...

Once discredited by his association with Nazism, Martin Heidegger is enjoying a posthumous revival. So what is it about his ideas that resonate with so many? By Samuel Earle If every philosopher has a ...

Last month saw another flare-up in the ongoing controversy regarding the philosopher Martin Heidegger. The German thinker is Janus-faced. On the one hand, he is lauded by his admirers as the greatest ...

It was in the nature of 19th century German philosophers to tackle the big questions of God, time and being head on. Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) was one of the ...