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The paper discusses the relationship between time and understanding in Heidegger’s phenomenological-ontological hermeneutics. Even thanks to an innovative concept of understanding as an open and projecting dimension, Heidegger can reach the qualitative, dynamic and differential concept of time, which is the basis of the Daseinsanalyse in Sein und Zeit. Only if comprehension is meant as a primary phenomenon can time be thought as an ecstatic disclosedness, i.e. an original, ontologically inderivative, unprogrammable non-functionalistic and essential temporality, which always involves and concerns us.
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«“Facticity” is the designation we will use for the character of the being of “our” “own” Dasein. […] “factical” means something which is of itself articulated with respect to, on the basis of, and with a view to such a factical character of being and “is” in this manner» (Heidegger 1999a: 5).
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«In Being-towards-death, Dasein comports itself towards itself as a distinctive potentiality-for-Being» (Heidegger 2001: 296).
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«Temporality is the primordial ‘outside-of-itself’ in and for itself. We therefore call the phenomena of the future, the character of having been, and the Present, the “ecstases” of temporality. Temporality is not, prior to this, an entity which first emerges from itself; its essence is a process of temporalizing in the unity of the ecstases» (Heidegger 2001: 377).
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In the English edition the term Vorverständigung has been translated in a generic and imprecise way as «understanding» (Heidegger 2001: 31).
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«Dasein is its disclosedness [Daseins is seine Erschlossenheit]» (Heidegger 2001: 171).
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One of the most important thesis present in Sein und Zeit claims that: «Higher than actuality stands possibility [Höher als die Wirklichkeit steht die Möglichkeit]» (Heidegger 2001: 63).
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«The kind of Being which equipment possesses—in which it manifests itself in its own right—we call “readiness-to-hand” [Zuhandenheit]» (Heidegger 2001: 98).
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Venezia, S. (2016). Sign(s) of the Time: Time and Understanding in Heidegger’s Phenomenological–Ontological Hermeneutics. In: Santoianni, F. (eds) The Concept of Time in Early Twentieth-Century Philosophy. Studies in Applied Philosophy, Epistemology and Rational Ethics, vol 24. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-24895-0_17
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