Heidegger

Heidegger’s work covers a broad range of different philosophical themes and while he is principally known for Being and Time his thought extends well beyond this text. The inter-cultural focus in Heidegger’s writings centres on the possibility of dialogue between the West and the ‘Eastasian world’ (ostasiatische Welt) that is discussed in Heidegger’s later works, notably ‘A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer’. The dialogue should be understood in the context of Heidegger’s later thought, particularly his concerns about technology and nihilism, which he sees as emerging from the western tradition of thought.