Heidegger's talk of philosophy's engagement with the "extra-ordinary" is not mere provocation.

Heidegger links philosophy and history: "philosophy either projects far beyond its own time or else binds its time back to this time's earlier and inceptive past."

...I want to look at some remarks of Heidegger which concern how faith relates to the question "Why are there beings at all instead of nothing?"

...I was not convinced in the least that "Why is there anything at all?" was a good question.

In my early twenties, I was assigned Heidegger's Introduction to Metaphysics for a class. I did not get very far.