He was and remained a National Socialist, as did Ernst Jünger, who was certainly on the margins and isolated, but nevertheless far from being without influence. His later writings included Contributions to Philosophy (composed 1936–38), The Origin of the Work of Art (1935), the “Letter on Humanism” (composed 1946), and What Is Called Thinking? Philosophy of the Social Sciences 34 (3):423-431 (2004 ) Authors Joseph Agassi Tel Aviv University Abstract presents Heidegger as a devout mystic who viewed the Nazi Party as the sacred vessel of a divine message—even though, the author adds, his religion is secular and so it has no divinity and no immortal soul. Heidegger made simple (and offensive) Joseph Agassi. When she was a 19-year-old university student, Arendt fell in love with her 36-year-old married professor, Martin Heidegger (September 26, 1889–May 26, 1976). It earned him a full professorship at Marburg and, soon after, on Husserl's retirement from teaching in 1928, the chair of philosophy at Freiburg University (which he accepted, in spite of a counter-offer by Marburg). Heidegger's name for the human being is Dasein, a term which can be variously translated, but which is usually rendered as "being-there". Heidegger’s decision for Hitler went far beyond simple agreement with the ideology and program of the Party. A philosopher as influential as he is controversial, Heidegger made monumental contributions phenomenology and existentialism; he also joined the Nazi party and took an academic position under Nazi favors. The book made Heidegger famous almost overnight and was widely read by educated men and women throughout Germany. We don't constantly think at all about how Although he resigned a … Martin Heidegger’s magnum opus was Being and Time (1927), a revolutionary work that made him internationally famous and changed the course of 20th-century continental philosophy. Heidegger, however, thinks that that is only one mode of approaching an object, and that, in reality, we usually don’t think about things in this way.