Heidegger Never Got Beyond Facticity

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Professor at the Department of Religious Studies, Stanford University- USA

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(1) The “thing itself” of Heidegger’s thinking was Ereignis. (2) But Ereignis is a reinscription of what Being and Time had called thrownness or facticity. (3) But facticity/Ereignis is ex-sistence’s ever-operative appropriation to its proper structure as the ontological “space” or “clearing” that makes possible practical and theoretical discursivity. (4) Such facticity is the ultimate and inevitable presupposition of all activities of ex-sistence and thus of any understanding of being. (5) Therefore, for ex-sistence – and a fortiori for Heidegger as a thinker of Ereignis – there can be no going beyond facticity.

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-      Barrett, William (1962) Irrational Man (Garden City, NY: Doubleday Anchor)
-      Heidegger, Martin (1976) Gesamtausgabe (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann), with the pages of the current English translations listed after the equals sign.
-      Sheehan, Thomas (2015) Making Sense of Heidegger: A Paradigm Shift (London and New York: Rowman & Littlefield,)
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Journal of Philosophical Investigations
Volume 13, Issue 28 - Serial Number 28
Articles
2019
Pages 45-58

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