ABSTRACT
Heidegger (1899-1976) was originally a student of Husserl’s and succeeded to his professorial chair, though latterly they no longer supported each other’s perspectives. Where Husserl categorically rejected Nazism, Heidegger’s position was more equivocal. In the views of some, his mode of language had an influence, in a degenerated form, on the sloganizing language of Nazism. This issue is discussed in Steiner’s book on Heidegger (1978, pp. 111-21). However, as a student of Husserl and one who continued and modified the phenomenological approach which Husserl had opened up, we might expect him to have grappled with some of the major issues that have come to concern us.
