An Explication of the Concept of Breakdown in Heidegger, Leontjev, and Dewey

doi:10.4324/9781315789422-217

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An Explication of the Concept of Breakdown in Heidegger, Leontjev, and Dewey

ABSTRACT

Heidegger, the German phenomenologist, Leontjev, the Russian psychologist, and Dewey, the American Pragmatist, held surprisingly similar views on the role of breakdown or failure as a means of revealing the nature of the world around us.