A couple of years, I came across Günter Figal's lectures "Heidegger in Modernity" given at the University of Freiburg. In this episode, I begin some of the insights I have gleaned from them, in particular, focusing on the essentializing motif in Heidegger, i.e., the stress on the simple and the essential. As in other instances, my take on Figal's take on Heidegger is refracted through the theme of the craft of living.

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04:47 Rich Roll's Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman on Transcendence

EPISODE
11:32 Figal's Heidegger Lectures
14:16 Heidegger's Influence
18:55 Heidegger's Rejection of Academic Philosophy
23:42 Heidegger's Influence Outside the Academy
26:33 Heidegger as Modern Philosopher
35:33 Figal contra Habermas on Defining Modernity
40:02 Heidegger's Hut
41:42 Thoreau's Hut; Walden Quote
45:42 Heidegger's Quote on Winter Night and Philosophy

REFERENCES AND BACKGROUND MATERIAL
Barry Scott Kaufman, Transcend
Günter Figal, Heidegger in der Moderne
Rich Roll Podcast Interview with Scott Barry Kaufman

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27. The Simple and the Essential: Heidegger in Modernity I