Why I’m Teaching Myself Heidegger

Xi Chen
4 min readFeb 25, 2018
Heidegger. Photo by Franz from IMAGNO.

A couple years ago I audited a lecture on existentialism. I wasn’t a philosophy major, or even a humanities major, but I was an angsty college kid looking for answers. And instead, I got an incomprehensible professor of German Studies yelling at us about Dasein.

I will never forget that lecture on Martin Heidegger, because it was one of the first times I spent an entire hour just feeling really stupid…

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