A Battle of Giants: Being in Being and Time

Geertsema, Marius Johan

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Marius Johan Geertsema²

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Abstract

Heidegger announces in the introduction to Being and Time that the provisional aim of the work is the interpretation of time ‘as the possible horizon of any understanding of being whatsoever’. The essence of time is sought in the basic structure of Dasein. Dasein exists in an ontical sense in as far as it is present. Secondly, Dasein’s particular way of existing means that it is always related to its own being, which makes it also an ontological entity. Just as originally Dasein has an understanding of its own being, it has an understanding of the being of entities that do not have the character of Dasein. As such, Dasein ‘is’ ontic-ontological.

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HEIDEGGER, M. Being and Time. trans. Stambaugh New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. p. XIX.
Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002. p. XIII.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002. p. XIII.
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Idem p. 7.
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Idem p. 212, 246–247.
Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 276–277.
Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Heraklit. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1994. GA 55 p. 92.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002. p. 12.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1977. GA 2 p. 177. Footnote c.
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Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 300–301.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002. p. 212.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Being and Time. trans. Stambaugh, J New York: State University of New York Press, 1996. p. HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002. p. 43–44.
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DESCARTES, R. Descartes Meditations on First Philosophy. Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1996. p. 16.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002. p. 38.
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Idem p. 53.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Holzwegen. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1977. GA 5 p. 30.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002 p. 132.
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Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs (1925) GA 20.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Prolegomena zur Geschichte des Zeitbegriffs. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1979. GA 20, p. 347
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002 Idem 68.
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HEGEL, G.W.F. Wissenschaft der Logik. Hamburg: Felix Meiner Verlag, 2008. p. 34.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Wass heisst denken?. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2002. GA 8 p. 189.
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Idem p. 190.
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Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie – Sommersemester 1927. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 24 p. 434.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002. p. 17.
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Idem p. 228.
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Idem p. 150.
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Notice that the common translation of Entwurf as ‘projection’ is easily misleading. Entwurf as projection is not first a representation; rather, each representation is a way of projecting in the sense of entwerfen. The term ‘projection’ is nowadays immediately associated with psychoanalysis and connotes a subject that projects object and world by means of representing. This is emphatically not what Heidegger means with Entwurf , which instead means to be thrown ahead of oneself and, as such, to be thrown open between one’s earlier and one’s later being, as the open temporal perspective that first makes en-presenting present entities possible. Entwurf is not a thought or image that Dasein throws over the world in front of it, but Dasein itself is thrown before and ahead of itself, according to Heidegger. Compare Heidegger’s critique on the concept of ‘projection’ (Projektion) in Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie – Sommersemester 1927. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 24 p. 239.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 13.
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Idem p. 16–17, 212, 235.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag Tübingen, 2002. p. 325.
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Idem p. 329.
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ARISTOTLE. Physics. Sioux Falls: NuVision Publications, 2007. p. 7.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Poetry, Language, Thought. New York: Harperperennial, 2001. p. XIX. See the mutual belonging of ereignen and eräugnen in the excellent introduction to Poetry, Language, Thought by Albert Hofstadter on page XX. Notice that the duality of occurrence and its intelligibility are already expressed by Plato’s metaphor for being: the sun. The light of the sun at once enables to see and lets grow.
Compare also SHEEHAN, T. Making Sense of Heidegger: A Paradigm Shift. Rowman & Littlefield International, 2015 pp. 232–233. The problem with Ereignis is not that it is ‘not’ (an) event or happening as Sheehan argues, but that it is not ‘one’ event among others, and that it is not throughout positive or present and only, as such, not ‘ein Vorkommnis’. Being occurs from the open in such a way that it provides insight into its own revealing and concealing constellation by means of the clearing. The latter sense is usually not attached to terms like occurrence or event. Time and being belong to Ereignis; the latter is therefore not a moment in time. Nevertheless, ambiguity and the risk of an interpretation from the context of common sense or natural language remains inherent to philosophical terms. Hence, what is important is to pay attention to the use of the term by an author, instead of assuming a rigid frame of reference of the reader on the basis of which certain terms ought to be avoided. Compare: HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 25–26.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 471.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie – Sommersemester 1927. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 24 p. 29.
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Idem p. 30.
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Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 321.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Hölderlins Hymnen ‘Germanien’ und der ‘Rhein’. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1999. GA 39 p. 164.
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Idem p. 175.
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Idem p. 195.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1981. GA 4. p. 36.

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Geertsema, M.J. (2018). A Battle of Giants: Being in Being and Time. In: Heidegger's Poetic Projection of Being. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78072-6_4

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