PHL220H5 Lecture Notes - Lecture 10: Intersubjectivity, Martin Heidegger, Antihero
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Heidegger: authentic existence: gave interview with des spiegel magazine in 1967, published after death, key terms from heidegger"s being and time (1927) a. b. Being-in-the-world (bitw) characterizes dasein"s mode of being as engaged and embedded in the world: Bitw is prior to subject-object duality, which is really a distorted abstraction of o not separated and distinct from the world o. Publicness controls every way in which the world and dasein get we do and act as they do: but this provides the context in which our own conformity as leveling : leveling down of all possibilities of being (bt. Everyone is the other, and no one is himself (bt 165) the masses engenders inauthentic existence: authentic vs. inauthentic existence. Inauthentic existence: complete absorption into the theyself, losing one"s self in the theyself, in these modes one"s way of being is that of inauthenticity and failure to stand by one"s.