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Episode: Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Thing' by Martin Heidegger
Description: Podcast: Close Readings (LS 43 · TOP 1% what is this?)Episode: Conversations in Philosophy: 'The Thing' by Martin HeideggerPub date: 2025-07-21Get Podcast Transcript →powered by Listen411 - fast audio-to-text and summarizationWhat does it mean for a jug to be a jug? Or for any thing to be called a ‘thing’? In his 1950 lecture ‘Das Ding’, Heidegger attempts to cajole his audience away from their everyday way of seeing the world as consisting of objects that can be represented objectively, and into the kind of thinking that ‘responds and recalls’. For...