The Last Of The Great German Mystics

Both Ludwig Wittgenstein and Martin Heidegger labored to subvert the Plato to Kant tradition of Western philosophy—though, admittedly, by engaging with the tradition in order to subvert it they were inevitably contaminated by it.

Heidegger wrote Contributions To Philosophy alone in his hut in the Black Forest after he’d been banned from teaching. He considered Being and Time a failure and was starting from scratch. It reads like it was composed by someone from another planet.

Central Europe produced its own brand of mysticism due to the peculiarities of its own history. Besides Plato to Kant, German mystics had to overcome Christianity. I spot them points for that. But even if we grade them on a curve, they still end up only holding a candle in the bright sun of tasawwuf.