ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses Martin Heidegger and provides an overall account of his philosophy in terms of his Seinsgeschichte, the eschatology of Being. Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein were the two most celebrated philosophers of the second half of the twentieth century. Both Wittgenstein and Heidegger took a much stronger antiscience and anti-technology stand than Oswald Spengler. Wittgenstein fully agreed with this verdict, saying that "Spengler is right in this connection not to classify Weininger with the philosophers of the West". As in Spengler, their anti-Semitismus is closely bound up with their culturpessimismus. Both saw the Jews as a foreign and dangerous presence in Western civilization. There are three basic fields with which Wittgenstein's philosophy is mainly concerned: language, mind, and mathematics. Heidegger's philosophy is in some respects a response to the tragedy of European civilization insofar as he saw this as the tragedy of Germany's defeat in the two world wars.
