Heidegger's World

This study investigates how Martin Heidegger's notion of "the thing" (Das Ding) can help rescue modern disenchantment with regard to its root in the World, a concept developed from "being-in-the-world" presented in Being and Time, and later taken as a participant in the bilateral polemos illustrated in die Gestalt (signifying Being's strife to disclose itself against the Earth: self-concealing concealment). In Section 1, I analyze the occurrence of disenchantment by critically reviewing several thinkers' discussions of it, pointing out that "faciality"-which has structured the modern Western understanding of reality-is the cornerstone of ontotheology, as well as the collapse of it: disenchantment. In Section 2, to demonstrate how Heidegger's rediscovery of usefulness in a de-subjectified discourse of signification has challenged the positivistic view attached to "faciality", I examine Heidegger's idea of "readiness-to-hand," revealing the basic temporal-spatial units composing the "handiness" of categorical beings and its relation to Dasein, progressing thereon to the analysis of a thing-centered worldview of Heidegger's phenomenology. In Section 3, I demonstrate how this thing-centered worldview has the potential to form a preparative stage for re-enchantment of the World by uncovering the concealed existentiality within things, aligning with Heidegger's polemos in his philosophy of art

Aesthetics · Art · Being in the world · Cornerstone · Disenchantment · Embodied cognition · Epistemology · Gestalt psychology · Perception · Political science · Sociology · The Thing · Law · Phenomenology and Existential Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religious Studies and Spiritual Practices

• Division III of Heidegger's Being and Time

  Alain Badiou, Charles Guignon et al.•Division III of Heidegger's Being…•2015

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