Being and planning, world formation and authenticity in Heideggerian analysis

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ID12710054
AuthorsNicholas Low (0000-0003-4817-8986, The University of Melbourne, corresponding author), Sophie Sturup (0000-0002-7643-4425, Xi’an Jiaotong-Liverpool University)
Year2017
Volume17
Issue3
Pages313-331
Publication date2017-04-27
Open AccessYes
TypeARTICLE
VenuePlanning Theory (JOURNAL)
Journal identifiersISSN: 1473-0952 • E-ISSN: 1741-3052
PublisherSAGE Publishing (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1177/1473095217704234
OpenAlexW2609593466
LanguageEN
Citations received2
References cited19

The theory of being helps us understand the condition of planning in an evanescent, shape-shifting world and how to be a strategic planner in such a world. Martin Heidegger’s investigation of being reveals important and sometimes disconcerting insights into humans and the worlds they inhabit and generate. In this article, we use Heidegger’s framework of thought to reveal what being means for planners and planning. In our investigation, we focus on one theme that seems fundamental to the practice of planning, the transformative impulse, and we reflect on how Heidegger’s thought provides insights into that element. We show how Heidegger, the philosopher of the everyday, overturned the Cartesian dualistic ontology of subject–object, replacing it with the holistic being-in-the-world. We explore how this holistic ontology helps reinterpret transformative practice. We argue that effective transformation of society involves a transformation of being

Epistemology · Focus (optics · Object (grammar · Ontology · Planner · Sociology · Subject (documents · Theme (computing · Transformative learning · Computer Science · Foucault, Power, and Ethics · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Artificial Intelligence

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