In-der-Blog-sein

Willamette Stories refers to the Katrina of XXth century philosophy.

A change of interest, and a change of heart, led [Doug McGaughey] to the Chicago Theological Seminary, a school steeped in social activism; it had been founded by leaders of the Underground Railroad. “I thought I was going to be a pastor,” McGaughey says.

That was before he got waylaid by a German philosopher named Martin Heidegger, whose Being and Time was starting to take North America by storm. “That was the fall of 1969, and I haven’t been the same since,” McGaughey says.

And he wasn't alone.  ¶ 9:04 PM