Being and Time in his posthumously published "" (1973), argued that the concept of reification as employed in "Being and Time" showed the strong influence of György Lukács' "History and Class Consciousness" (1923), though Goldmann's suggestion has been disputed. "Being and Time" influenced Alain Badiou's work "Being and Event" (1988). Roger Scruton writes that "Being and Time" is "the most complex of the many works inspired, directly or indirectly, by Kant's theory of time as 'the form of inner sense'." He considers Heidegger's language "metaphorical" and almost incomprehensible. Scruton suggests that this necessarily follows from the nature of Heidegger's phenomenological method. He finds
Francisco Romero (philosopher) in 1946, not returning until 1955. Romero began to publish on literary subjects during the First World War. Known as the "dean of Ibero-American philosophers," he became an influential critic, philosopher, and translator. Romero is interested in examining the space of human culture, especially with respect to creativity and social responsibility. A strongly anti-ideological humanist, he argues against Humean rationalism and all deterministic conceptions of the universe. True being is identified by Romero with transcendence, spiritual and moral aspiration, and intentionality. His writing is marked by a balance between philosophical rigor and literary sophistication, and "Theory of Man" (1952; English