Being and Time completed continuation of his project: Although Heidegger describes his method in "Being and Time" as phenomenological, the question of its relation to the phenomenology of Husserl is complex. The fact that Heidegger believes that ontology includes an irreducible hermeneutic (interpretative) aspect, for example, might be thought to run counter to Husserl's claim that phenomenological description is capable of a form of scientific positivity. On the other hand, however, several aspects of the approach and method of "Being and Time" seem to relate more directly to Husserl's work. The central Husserlian concept of the directedness of all thought—intentionality—for example, while scarcely
German American journalism Louis (1864-1905). Franz Grimm, exiled editor of the 'Blätter der Zeit' in Brunswick, Germany, resettled across from St. Louis in Belleville, Illinois, where his "Belleviller Zeitung" became an influential voice for the German-Americans of southern Illinois. Grimm was influential in supporting Abraham Lincoln for the 1860 nomination and in explaining the issues of the war to his readers. Forty-Eighter Hermann Raster wrote passionately against slavery and for Lincoln. Raster published anti-slavery pamphlets and was the editor of the most influential German language newspaper in America at the time. He helped secure the votes of German-Americans across the United States for