Raymond Geuss vs. Martin Heidegger

Side-by-side comparison of two thinkers

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Raymond Geuss

1946 – present

Philosophy
United States
Realism

Raymond Geuss, FBA is an American political philosopher and scholar of 19th and 20th century European philosophy. He is currently Emeritus Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy, University of Cambridge. Geuss is primarily known for three reasons: his early account of ideology critique in The Idea of a Critical Theory; a recent collection of works instrumental to the emergence of political realism in Anglophone political philosophy over the last decade, including Philosophy and Real Politics; and a variety of free-standing essays on issues including aesthetics, Nietzsche, contextualism, phenomenology, intellectual history, culture and ancient philosophy.

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"It is an assumption that there is always one single dimension for assessing persons and their actions that has canonical priority. This is the dimension of mora…"

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Martin Heidegger

Martin Heidegger

1889 – 1976

Philosophy
West Germany
Existentialism

Martin Heidegger was a German philosopher whose work was central to the development of phenomenology, hermeneutics, and existentialism. He has had a considerable impact on fields ranging from philosophy and theology to literary theory and political philosophy.

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"Today we decide about metaphysics and about even more elevated things at philosophy conferences. For everything that is to be done these days we must first have…"

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Connections

Martin Heidegger was influenced by Raymond Geuss
Shared era: 1946 – 1976