Three courses. One thinker. The deepest confrontation with what it means to exist — and what modernity has done to that question.
Start the Existentialist Track →Your Philosophy Diagnostic placed you in the Existentialist tradition. That means you already know what most people are still figuring out: that the big systems — political, religious, ideological — don't finally answer the question of how you should live. That somewhere beneath all the frameworks, something irreducibly individual remains. Heidegger is the thinker who took that intuition most seriously — and pushed it furthest. These three courses follow his thought from the question of Being to his final confrontation with the history of the West.
Heidegger's masterwork. Dasein, thrownness, anxiety, authenticity, being-toward-death. The question of what it means to be — not as a logical puzzle, but as the condition you're already inside. The most important philosophy book of the 20th century, taught properly.
Written after Being and Time, published only posthumously. The turn from Dasein to Ereignis — from the question of Being to the event of Being's self-giving. The most difficult text of Heidegger's later thought, and the one most rarely taught.
Heidegger's private philosophical journals. What he actually thought — about National Socialism, about technology, about the history of Being and the future of the West. Controversial. Largely unread. Essential if you want to understand Heidegger completely rather than conveniently.
You are the type of professor who, if I were still at Stanford, I would look to see if you were offering any class every quarter so I can take it, no matter what it was. You're that level of teacher.
Michael's enthusiasm for the real-world import of philosophy is immediately palpable, and his command of a wide-range of material, and fluency expressing it, is rare... I left both less confused and more interested in a subject that I had found quite frustrating just before. An absolutely excellent teacher!
He is whip smart and successfully imparts key teachings from often dense and somewhat opaque readings as only someone who truly lives and breathes the material can... His Strauss and Plato classes were out of this world.
Reading 'On Tyranny' in parallel with the course, I was struck by how much more digestible the text and more understandable the context was with Michael's guidance... Overall, this was a masterclass in pedagogy and evenhandedness.
PhD in philosophy with a dissertation on Heidegger. The leading English-language scholar of Alexander Dugin. Translator of seven books. Former instructor at the University of Toronto. Private philosophical counsel for hedge fund managers, data scientists, and founders.
Heidegger is the thinker Millerman has spent his career with. This is not an introduction by someone who read the secondary literature. It is taught by someone who has thought with these texts for decades.
Featured on The Pomp Podcast with Anthony Pompliano. Interviewed by Erik Torenberg on Big Ideas. Brendan McCord of the Cosmos Institute studied with him privately.
The thinker who changed everything. Three courses. $197.
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