Question

Explain with reference to the contribution of martin heidegger of phenomenology

Answer 1

Martin Heidegger (1889–1971) was a student of Husserl. Before that, he was a theology student, interested in much more concrete matters of human existence than his teacher, and his questions concerned how to live and how to live "authentically"—that is, with integrity, in a complex and confusing world. His use of phenomenology was subservient to this quest, although the quest itself soon transcended the phenomenological method. Heidegger's phenomenology is most evident in his first (and greatest) book, Sein und Zeit (1927; English trans. Being and Time, 1962). Like his teacher Husserl, Heidegger insists that philosophical investigation begin without presuppositions. But Husserl, he says, still embraced Descartes's basic picture of the world, assuming that consciousness, or "the mind," was the arena in which phenomenological investigation took place. Such a philosophy could not possibly be presupposition-less. So Heidegger abandons the language of mind, consciousness, experience, and the like, but nevertheless pursues phenomenology with a new openness, a new receptivity, and a sense of oneness with the world

Answer 2

Martin Heidegger's chief concern was to elevate the problem of Being, that is, to make understanding of our potential to make the judgment of things. Heidegger's research, however, was of a particular type of Being, pointed to by Heidegger as 'Dasein', which actually suggests 'Being-there'.

Phenomenology is the study of compositions of awareness as encountered from the first-person point of representation. Phenomenology has been used in several forms for centuries, but it came into its individual exists only in the early 20th century in the compositions of Merleau-Ponty,  Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, and others.