Heidegger and Sartre may not be existentialism’s most consequential thinkers

Evidence

The two gigantic figures in the story are inevitably Heidegger and Sartre — but those who know their Being and Time or Being and Nothingness may be surprised to find these masterworks chopped in shards and mixed up like chocolate chips in a cookie, rather than being dealt with by the whole bar, as it were. And they may not be the thinkers who, in the end, have the most to say. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 107

Categorization

• XREF: connects to: Heidegger rejected Sartre’s humanist existentialism as philosophically worthless — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 641; Heidegger’s philosophy cannot be separated from its problematic elements — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 305; Flawed existentialist thinkers remain worth studying for the questions they insist on — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 1007

Broader Connections

• Heidegger rejected Sartre’s humanist existentialism as philosophically worthless #responds-to (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 641
• Heidegger’s philosophy cannot be separated from its problematic elements #complicates (0.75) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 305