Heidegger

Four disparate thinkers

28 November 2020 9:00 am

How do you write a group biography of people who never actually formed a group? Such is the challenge Wolfram…

Mathematical mysteries

7 March 2020 9:00 am

The reality (or lack thereof) of numbers is the kind of problem some philosophers consider overwhelmingly important, but it’s of…

Clockwise from top left: Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger and Simone de Beauvoir

‘Existentialism? I don’t know what it is’

27 February 2016 9:00 am

We all carried their philosophy around in our youth, says Philip Hensher. But did anyone — including the existentialists themselves — really understand it?