Husserl, Heidegger & Existentialism - Hubert Dreyfus & Bryan Magee (1987)

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In this program, Hubert Dreyfus and Bryan Magee discuss the thinkers Husserl and Heidegger, as well as the movements of phenomenology and existentialism. This comes from a 1987 series on the Great Philosophers. Edmund Husserl was a 20th-century German philosopher, best known for founding phenomenology, a philosophical movement and methodology of examining the underlying structure of experience. Martin Heidegger was also a 20th-century German philosopher, best known for his contributions to phenomenology and existentialism. Existentialists take human existence and the human condition to be a fundamental issue. They tend to be radical individualists who privilege our lived experience and choice. They focus on themes such as: freedom, authenticity, the individual, meaning, anxiety, alienation, death, dread, the absurd, contingency, and nihilism. They are often also suspicious of any fixed, pre-determined human nature, objective/universal values, and abstract philosophical systems. Some of the most important existentialist thinkers (or at least thinkers associated with existentialism) include Jean-Paul Sartre, Martin Heidegger, Søren Kierkegaard, Friedrich Nietzsche, Dostoyevsky, Albert Camus, Karl Jaspers, and Simone de Beauvoir. (My Description)

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All Comments (21)
  • @Philosophy_Overdose
    This is a reupload. I wanted a version with higher audio quality. I’ll still leave the previous video up as unlisted, so as to not break any external links with it. Sorry about any inconvenience!
  • @aromalrays6530
    Thanks so much for uploading this beautiful series. Just fantastic stuff.
  • @bogdand6129
    On Sartre's interpretation of Heidegger: "...but he felt he had to fix up Heidegger ... as a Frenchman" 😂
  • @hihello-sx1sx
    Didn’t expect them to just start roasting Sartre out of nowhere lol
  • @nsbd90now
    I'm at 32 minutes and this is absolutely fantastic.
  • @user-kl4qe6ru4y
    What I am amazed is not the philosophy that they are talking about, but how well they understand the subject and how well they explain it in this talks. Amazing.
  • @sonarbangla8711
    What philosophers are trying to understand or explain is better understood as what physicists are trying but are unable to gasp and hang themselves between uncertainty and certainty, so philosophers find themselves hanging in between what seems unimportant and trifle and is the essence of root of the phenomenology. Much like physics and metaphysics, if we get the first we fail to get to the second.
  • @skepticalgenious
    Wow I was born when this was filmed roughly. Existential anxiety is funny. Like... oh no what happens if I don't exist. No I can't imagine that. 😂
  • @GenteelCretin
    40:48 - It is a bit strange to think that copies of Being and Nothingness seem to outsell No Exit and Nausea (all of which probably outsell Being and Time by a healthy margin). It's hard to not feel like Being and Nothingness' phenomenology misses the mark when compared to the rest of the phenomenological tradition.
  • @mb2982
    There is a 2 hour interview with Dreyfus more recent in 2000s ...you had it before but can't find it ...if copyright issue keen to know source as it's very important interview
  • @PlaydoughPlato
    I wonder if they had read Sartre’s Imagination. I think it gives a more favorable account of his straddling of phenomenology and existentialism than nausea or being and nothingness.