“The crisis of spirit suffered by Germany in 1918 was more profound than that of 1945.” When you get to grad school in many humanities, you start to learn there’s a list of about 100,000 books you’re both expected to have read and know, and only later do you realize that not only is this an impossible task, no one, including your professors, except maybe that one person, has done so. Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time is one of those books, but so are, in […]