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How Anime Led Me to Heidegger

From Evangelion to Dasein

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Michael Kumpmann
Aug 27, 2026
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Michael Kumpmann recounts how the philosophical anime of the 1980s and 1990s led him to Heidegger and shaped the world of fear, terror, and alienation in his science-fiction novel Dimensional Prophecy of Zohar.

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