The question of anguish as a form of a proper self-existence in Martin Heidegger

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Keywords:

Ontology. Phenomenology. Dasein. Being.

Abstract

This article constitutes a brief exegesis of the first part of the work Being and Time, in which Heidegger discusses the fundamental dispositions that open existence (Dasein) as being-in-theworld, and which are determined as: anguish, fear and boredom. As fundamental dispositions, they are distinguished from their surface factual manifestations, such as fears and panic (derived from the fundamental disposition of fear), restlessness and anxieties (derived from structural anguish), disinterest and even the apparent “opposite” of the latter, the overwhelming curiosity (derived from boredom). These here are, for Heidegger, all phatic modes derived from fundamental (structural) dispositions that can thus be appreciated ontically (phatically). This article proposes, therefore, to succinctly elaborate an exegesis on this issue in Heidegger’s phenomenology, so that maybe we can take one more step in understanding what the philosopher thinks with respect to the very structure of the Being-man.

Author Biography

Manuela Saadeh, Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (UFRJ)

Pós doutoranda em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal Rural do Rio de Janeiro (2022). Doutora em Filosofia pela Universidade Federal do Rio de Janeiro (2015 a 2019). Mestre em Filosofia pela UFRJ (2014), com foco na filosofia de Martin Heidegger.

References

HEIDEGGER, M. Que é Metafísica? In: Conferências e Escritos Filosóficos. Tradução de Ernildo Stein. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1973. (Coleção Os Pensadores).

HEIDEGGER, M. Sein und Zeit. 17. Aufl. Tübingen: Max Niemeyer Verlag GnbH e Co. 1993.

HEIDEGGER, M. Sobre a Essência do Fundamento. Tradução de Ernildo Stein. São Paulo: Abril Cultural, 1979. (Coleção Os Pensadores).

HEIDEGGER, M. The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic. Translated by Michael Heim. Bloomington; Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1982.

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2024-07-08

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No. 32 (2024)

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Varia

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