# Thomas Sheehan (philosopher) > Mediated Wiki article. Canonical URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thomas_Sheehan_(philosopher) > Markdown URL: https://mediated.wiki/source/Thomas_Sheehan_(philosopher).md > Source: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Sheehan_(philosopher) > Source revision: 1355909726 > License: Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/) American philosopher For other people with the same name, see [Sheehan](/source/Sheehan_(disambiguation)). Thomas Sheehan Born (1941-06-25) 25 June 1941 (age 85) Education Education Fordham University (MA, PhD) Philosophical work Era 20th-century philosophy Region Western philosophy School Phenomenology Hermeneutics Existentialism Main interests Ontology · Martin Heidegger Edmund Husserl · first-century Christianity · early Jewish and Christian apocalyptic Notable ideas The First Coming **Thomas Sheehan** (born 25 June 1941) is an American philosopher. He is a professor emeritus of [religious studies](/source/Religious_studies) at [Stanford University](/source/Stanford_University) and a professor emeritus of philosophy at [Loyola University Chicago](/source/Loyola_University_Chicago). His philosophical specialties are in [philosophy of religion](/source/Philosophy_of_religion), twentieth-century [European philosophy](/source/European_philosophy), and [classical metaphysics](https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Classical_metaphysics&action=edit&redlink=1).[1][2][3] He is the author of *The First Coming*, a controversial[*[citation needed](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wikipedia:Citation_needed)*] account of Easter. ## Bibliography - *Heidegger's Being and Time*. A New Reading. New Heidegger Research. London (England) 2022. 304 p. - *Making sense of Heidegger*. A paradigm shift. New Heidegger Research. London (England) 2015. XX, 350 p. - *Facticity and Ereignis*. Interpreting Heidegger. Critical essays. Ed. [Daniel O. Dahlstrom](/source/Daniel_O._Dahlstrom). Cambridge (England) 2011. p. 42–68. - Martin Heidegger: *Logic*. The question of truth. Translated by Thomas Sheehan. Studies in Continental Thought. Bloomington (Indianapolis) 2010. XII, 356 p. - *Becoming Heidegger*. On the trail of his early occasional writings 1910–1927. Ed. Theodore Kisiel and Thomas Sheehan. Northwestern University Studies in Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy. Evanston (Illinois) 2007. LXXIV, 534 p. - *Dasein*. A companion to Heidegger. Ed. Hubert L. Dreyfus, Mark A. Wrathall. Blackwell Companions to Philosophy. 29. Malden (Massachusetts) 2005. p. 193–213. - General introduction. *Husserl and Heidegger*. The making and unmaking of a relationship. Edmund Husserl: Collected works. Ed. by Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer. Vol. 6: Psychological and transcendental phenomenology and the confrontation with Heidegger (1927–1931). The Encyclopædia Britannica article, the Amsterdam lectures, „Phenomenology and Anthropology“ and Husserl's marginal notes in Being and Time and Kant and the problem of metaphysics. Ed. and transl. by Thomas Sheehan and Richard E. Palmer. Dordrecht (Netherlands) 1997. p. 1–32. - *Heidegger’s Lehrjahre*. The Collegium Phaenomenologicum. The first ten years. Ed. John C. Sallis, Giuseppina Moneta, and Jacques Taminiaux. Phaenomenologica. Ed. Samuel Ijsseling. 105. Dordrecht (Netherlands) 1988. p. 77–137. - *Karl Rahner*. The philosophical foundations. Series in Continental Thought 9. Athens (Ohio) 1987. 320 p. - *The first coming*. How the Kingdom of God became Christianity. 1986. - *Heidegger*. The man and the thinker. Ed. Thomas Sheehan. Chicago (Illinois) 1981. XX, 348 p. - Introduction. *Heidegger, the project and the fulfillment*. Heidegger. The man and the thinker. Ed. Thomas Sheehan. Chicago (Illinois) 1981. p. VII–XX. - *Getting to the topic*. The new edition of Wegmarken. Research in phenomenology. 7. 1977. p. 299–316. - *Heidegger’s early years*. Fragments for a philosophical biography. Listening. 12. 1977. p. 3–20. Heidegger. The man and the thinker. Ed. Thomas Sheehan. Chicago (Illinois) 1981. p. 3–19. - *Heidegger, Aristotle, and phenomenology*. Philosophy today. 19. 1975. p. 87–94. - *Notes on a lovers' quarrel*. Heidegger and Aquinas. Listening. 9. 1974. p. 137–143. - *Heidegger*. From beingness to the time-being. Listening. 8. 1973. p. 17–31. ## References 1. **[^](#cite_ref-1)** [About Thomas Sheehan](http://religiousstudies.stanford.edu/people/tom-sheehan/) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-2)** [The Gospel According to Thomas Sheehan](http://www.chicagoreader.com/chicago/the-gospel-according-to-thomas-sheehan/Content?oid=873733) 1. **[^](#cite_ref-3)** [Sheehan's CV](https://www.infidels.org/library/modern/thomas_sheehan/bio.html) v t e Martin Heidegger Terminology Philosophy Aletheia Always already Being in itself Dasein Ekstase Existentiell Fundamental ontology Gestell Hermeneutic circle Metaphysics of presence Ontotheology Orthotes Sous rature Thrownness World disclosure Works Being and Time (1927) "What Is Metaphysics?" (1929) Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics (1929) "Introduction to Metaphysics" (1935) Black Notebooks (1931–70) "The Age of the World Picture" (1938) Contributions to Philosophy (1936–8) "Hölderlin's Hymn 'The Ister'" (1942) "Letter on Humanism" (1947) The Question Concerning Technology (1949) Off the Beaten Track (1950) "The Origin of the Work of Art" (1950) What Is Called Thinking? (1951–2) What Is Philosophy? (1955) Zollikon Seminars (1959–69) "Only a God Can Save Us" (1966) Heidegger Gesamtausgabe (1975–) Related topics Heidegger Studies Studia Heideggeriana Relationship with Nazism Cassirer–Heidegger debate Authority control databases International ISNI VIAF GND FAST WorldCat National United States France BnF data Czech Republic Netherlands Norway Latvia Sweden Israel Academics CiNii People Deutsche Biographie DDB Other IdRef SNAC Yale LUX This biography of an American philosopher is a stub. 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