On This Day Martin Heidegger Died, Who Embodied the Contradiction Between Philosophy and Politics

Néstor Rivero Pérez nestor5030@gmail.com On May 26, 1976, at the age of 86, he died in Freiburg (Germany) Martin Heidegger, the driving force behind existentialism. Heidegger was, together with Theodor Adorno, Alexander Koyré, Jean Paul Sartre, José Ortega y Gasset and José Gaos, one of the most influential thinkers of the 20th century, despite his explicit adherence as an academic during a period of the Nazi regime, to the Third Reich led by Ad…