[lbo-talk] Grappling with Heidegger

ravi gadfly at exitleft.org
Fri Jun 9 18:42:47 PDT 2006


At around 9/6/06 5:34 pm, Charles Brown wrote:
>
> If I understand, Heidegger is talking about an ahistorical , asocial
> Individual, a Universal Individual, rooted in itself.
>

Is this what you get from the text I quoted? Here's one bit:


> The world into which our Dasein is thrown and on which it enters has
> others in it. ... Our understanding of the ontological status of others,
> and of the relationship of such status to our own Dasein, is itself a
> form of being. To understand the presentness of others is to exist.
> Being-in-the-world, says Heidegger, is a being-with.

We must be parsing this stuff very differently, I am afraid.

--ravi

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