ABSTRACT
Herbert Marcuse saw in Martin Heidegger the possibility of ‘a new beginning, the first radical attempt to put philosophy on really concrete foundations’. Both phenomenology’s vaunting aspirations and its Achilles heel are simultaneously present here – the yearning for concrete foundations and the assumption of a homogenous human condition upon which a general philosophy of existence may be based. The manner in which Heidegger frames his question of Being casts a long shadow over the existential-phenomenological tradition. Heidegger extols a return to Being, a homecoming in which our mode of being and even our language comes closer to the reality of aletheia itself. Heidegger preferred German and Ancient Greek, language, ideas and values.
