Heideggerianize
verb ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 To make Heideggerian. transitive
"When they did occur, he would invariably tell me jokingly, “Dear Bill, you're a good critic, but why do you weaken your originative criticism by Heideggerianizing it?” And I would respond, antiphonally, “Edward, I think you're a good critic, too, but why do you limit possibilities by not attending to Heidegger's destructive ontology?"
Example
More examples"When they did occur, he would invariably tell me jokingly, “Dear Bill, you're a good critic, but why do you weaken your originative criticism by Heideggerianizing it?” And I would respond, antiphonally, “Edward, I think you're a good critic, too, but why do you limit possibilities by not attending to Heidegger's destructive ontology?"
Etymology
From Heideggerian + -ize.
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