Concept
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Historicity
Concept · 2 readings
Historicity is the way a life takes up inherited possibilities. Claims about a shared destiny still need political and ethical justification.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 7 of 12
Living from a past toward a future
Heidegger finds the unity of care in temporality and moves from inherited possibilities to a people’s destiny. What does that move leave ethically unjustified?
Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits · Lesson 8 of 12
Philosophy under political judgment
Heidegger’s political commitments put his philosophy under judgment. The lesson separates established evidence from reported notebook passages, compares Di Cesare’s and Malpas’s readings and judges claims without exempting the work from its history.
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Heidegger: being, a shared world and its limits
Begin with familiar encounters and follow Heidegger’s questions about being, a finite life, truth, art, dwelling and technology. Examine what the arguments explain, what they leave open and how they fare under political and ethical criticism.