Being and Time essence of being is time is the opposite of Hegel's view that being is the essence of time. Karl Jaspers, writing in the first volume of his work "Philosophy" (1932), credited Heidegger with making essential points about "being in the world" and also about "existence and historicity". Heidegger's work has been suggested as a possible influence on Herbert Marcuse's "Hegel's Ontology and the Theory of Historicity" (1932), though Marcuse later questioned the political implications of Heidegger's work. Jean-Paul Sartre, who wrote "Being and Nothingness" (1943) under the influence of Heidegger's work, has been said to have responded to "Being and
William S. Burroughs on Burroughs, "The only American novelist living today who may conceivably be possessed by genius", appears on many Burroughs publications. Others consider his concepts and attitude more influential than his prose. Prominent admirers of Burroughs' work have included British critic and biographer Peter Ackroyd, the rock critic Lester Bangs, the philosopher Gilles Deleuze and the authors J. G. Ballard, Angela Carter, Jean Genet, William Gibson, Alan Moore, Kathy Acker and Ken Kesey. Burroughs had a profound influence on the German writer , who in addition to being his German translator was a novelist in his own right and frequently wrote