- Title
- The interpretation of Da-sein as a transformative, poetic and ethical being
- Creator
- Mummery, Jane
- Date
- 2008
- Type
- Text; Book chapter
- Identifier
- http://researchonline.federation.edu.au/vital/access/HandleResolver/1959.17/69822
- Identifier
- vital:4492
- Identifier
- ISBN:9781847185068
- Abstract
- Exploring some of the implications of Heidegger's depction of Da-sein is thus the aim of this paper. To begin with, as I will demonstrate, Da-sein's way of being, in escaping categorization in terms of any particular 'waht', points instead to a 'how' and an open and transformative potentiality, a potentiality that is best exemplified by a certain mode of being-with. This, however, has implications broader than just the transformation of our understanding of Da-sein's way of being-in-the-world. Specifically, I suggest that it is this understanding of Da-sein's potentiality that not only mirrors but underpins and enables Heidegger's later delineations of the ethical and aesthetic potentiality of thinking itself. Like Da-sein, or perhaps due to Da-sein, thinking is depicted as being able to escape its traditional or common forms and constraints. These possibilities, however, raise in their turn a series of important questions with regard to the very possibility of thinking - in particular, questions concerning whether we do in fact need to dwell in order to think. Such questions, as I will show, have some interesting implications with regard to the possibility and efficacy of ethical thinking.
- Publisher
- Cambridge Scholars Publishing
- Relation
- Heidegger and the aesthetics of living p. 95-111
- Rights
- This metadata is freely available under a CCO license
- Subject
- Da-sein; Transformative; Poetic; Ethical being
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