The book owed much, including its prolixity, to Martin Heidegger, a German contemporary of Nazi sympathies.

ECONOMIST: Jean-Paul Sartre

Similarly, Nicholas Carr cites Martin Heidegger for having seen, in the mid-fifties, that new technologies would break the meditational space on which Western wisdoms depend.

NEWYORKER: The Information

Mr Evans said the writings of philosophers Martin Heidegger and Ludwig Wittgenstein had inspired him to try to instil computer-created characters with an understanding of social mores.

BBC: Computer games start thinking

They included such pro-Fascist ideologues as Louis Ferdinand Celine, Oswald Spengler, Martin Heidegger, Ezra Pound and Charles Maurras, as well as a range of uncommitted figures who commented in his favor, such as W.B.

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