Being and Time philosophy, and Heidegger's achievements in the work have been compared to those of Immanuel Kant in the "Critique of Pure Reason" (1781) and Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel in "The Phenomenology of Spirit" (1807) and "Science of Logic" (1812–1816). The work influenced philosophical treatises such as Jean-Paul Sartre's "Being and Nothingness" (1943). "Sein und Zeit" was first translated into English in 1962. According to Heidegger's statement in "Being and Time", the work was made possible by his study of Husserl's "Logical Investigations" (1900-1901). "Being and Time" was originally intended to consist of two major parts, each part consisting of three divisions.
Philosophy and literature narrative "Philosophus Autodidactus" as a response to al-Ghazali's "The Incoherence of the Philosophers", and then the 13th century Islamic theologian-philosopher Ibn al-Nafis also wrote a fictional narrative "Theologus Autodidactus" as a response to Abubacer's "Philosophus Autodidactus". The German philosopher Friedrich Nietzsche often articulated his ideas in literary modes, most notably in "Thus Spoke Zarathustra", a re-imagined account of the teachings of Zoroaster. Marquis de Sade and Ayn Rand wrote novels in which characters served as mouthpieces for philosophical positions, and act in accordance with them in the plot. George Santayana was also a philosopher who wrote novels and poetry; the