Search Results for Dasein

... is, in Heidegger’s terms, a “pre-ontological testimony” to Dasein’s groundedness in care, Kafka’s story “The Cares of a Family Man” (1919) and Blanchot’s novel The Most High (1948) may be called “post-ontological testimonies” of care. Both texts thematize the slipping away of the temporal horizon of care...

...). The section on Heidegger’s Dasein and on Sartre’s nothingness hinges on their different articulation of the relationship between the human being and nothing. The texts examined here are Heidegger’s lecture “What is Metaphysics?” (1929) and Sartre’s Being and Nothingness (1943). While Dasein , human...

... of the Cartesian cogito and Heideggerian Dasein, he notes that writing’s culturally specific nature would undermine the universality of selfhood upon which any such system of knowledge must rely. He writes: The form of the self is shaped by how a given culture relates to the modes of its...

.... The worlding of human/nonhuman bodies is often traced back to Martin Heidegger’s (1995 : 184) describing stones as “worldless,” animals as “poor in world,” and “Man” as “world-forming.” In Agamben’s (2004 : 50) reading, “Heidegger seeks to situate Dasein’s fundamental structure—its being-in-the-world...

... understands, for example, a dog. Yet the priority here is not found in the animal, but in the human face. We understand the animal, the face of an animal, in accordance with Dasein . The phenomenon of the face is not in its purest form in the dog. In the dog, in the animal, there are other phenomena...

... has disappeared from view into its own hidden existence. 3 Heidegger uses the word existence to describe Dasein’s being: “The ‘ substance ’ of human being is not the spirit as the synthesis of the body and soul, but existence ” (1996, 110). If we derive it from the Latin etymon ( existere...

... description of Dasein as a “coming-towards-oneself” that is also a “coming-back to one’s ownmost Self” (388). 48. Richardson reads Stevens’s commitment to the office as evidence of psy­ chological weakness (Later 300—01), and other biographical analyses cite Ste­ 26 Wallace Stevens and the Mode...