The goal of "Phenomenology of Distraction" is to explore the imbrication of attention and distraction within existential spatiality and temporality. First, I juxtapose the Heideggerian dispersion of ...

One of the figures often mentioned in this context, but rarely investigated in any detail, was Herbert Marcuse. His early association with Heidegger, the shift to the Frankfurt School’s critical ...

This month’s Harper’s features a wonderful poem by Les Gottesman entitled “Heidegger’s a.m.” which presents some Heideggerian phenomenology with caffeine and an unmistakably ironic base note. “Coffee ...

German philosopher Martin Heidegger’s “Being and Time” is the topic of the fall Franke Lectures in the Humanities sponsored by the Whitney Humanities Center (WHC). This semester’s series has been ...