Death, Subjectivity, Temporality in Baudrillard and Heidegger

This article explores the relationship between Baudrillard and Heidegger on the theme of death, and the implicit questions of subjectivity and temporality that this relationship raises. The Heideggerian concept of Befindlichkeit (‘situatedness’), crucial to the German philosopher's thinking on death, facilitates the uncovering of an aporia in Baudrillard's theorizing on temporality. This aporia leads us to a broader questioning of the later Baudrillard's astructurality, and, more generally, an approach to thinking involving pure critique, rather than (taking account of the physis-logos dynamic) advancing alternative structures which are open to critique: morphological structures, as they may be termed. ‘[...] Plus encor que la Vie, La Mort nous tient souvent par des liens subtils’. Baudelaire, ‘Semper Eadem’, Les Fleurs du mal

Art · Art history · Epistemology · Sociology · Subjectivity · Temporality · Art, Politics, and Modernism · Philosophy

• Baudrillard and Heidegger

  Open Access•Vanessa Anne-Cecile Freerks•Theory Culture & Society•2022

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