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| Historicity: For Heidegger, historicity is the fundamental condition of human existence. He argues that we are always already historical beings, and that our understanding of ourselves and the world is always grounded in our past. See also M. Heidegger._____________Annotation: The above characterizations of concepts are neither definitions nor exhausting presentations of problems related to them. Instead, they are intended to give a short introduction to the contributions below. – Lexicon of Arguments. | |||
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Martin Heidegger on Historicity - Dictionary of Arguments
Gadamer I 266 Historicity/Heidegger/Gadamer: (...) that we only make history as far as we are ourselves, means that the historicity of human Dasein in all its movement of the present and of forgetting is the condition for us to make present what has been. >Dasein/Heidegger, >History/Heidegger, >Existence/Heidegger, >Time/Heidegger. Gadamer I 267 Gadamer: [the question is] whether something for the construction of a historical hermeneutics can be gained from the ontological radicalization which was brought by Heidegger. Heidegger's intention was certainly different, and one must be careful not to draw hasty conclusions from his existential analysis of the historicity of Dasein. According to Heidegger, the existential analysis of Dasein does not imply a specific historical ideal of existence. To that extent it claims even for a theological statement about the human and his or her existence in belief an a priori neutral validity. This may be a problematic claim for the self-understanding of belief, as for instance the dispute about Bultmann shows. (>Bultmann/Gadamer, >Hermeneutics. Conversely, it is by no means excluded that there are contentwise certain (existential) preconditions for Christian theology as well as for the historical humanities, under which they stand. But just for that reason one will have to accept that existential analytics itself, according to its own intention, does not contain any idealization and therefore cannot be criticized as such (however often this has been tried). It is a mere misunderstanding, if one sees in the temporality structure of concern a certain existential ideal, which one could counter with more pleasing moods (Bollnow)(1), for example, the ideal of carelessness, or with Nietzsche the natural innocence of animals and children. One cannot deny that this, too, is an ideal of existence. With this, however, it is true of it that his structure is the existential one, as Heidegger has shown it. >Animals/Heidegger. 1. O.F. Bollnow, Das Wesen der Stimmungen, Freiburg 1943._____________Explanation of symbols: Roman numerals indicate the source, arabic numerals indicate the page number. The corresponding books are indicated on the right hand side. ((s)…): Comment by the sender of the contribution. Translations: Dictionary of Arguments The note [Concept/Author], [Author1]Vs[Author2] or [Author]Vs[term] resp. "problem:"/"solution:", "old:"/"new:" and "thesis:" is an addition from the Dictionary of Arguments. If a German edition is specified, the page numbers refer to this edition. |
Hei III Martin Heidegger Sein und Zeit Tübingen 1993 Gadamer I Hans-Georg Gadamer Wahrheit und Methode. Grundzüge einer philosophischen Hermeneutik 7. durchgesehene Auflage Tübingen 1960/2010 Gadamer II H. G. Gadamer The Relevance of the Beautiful, London 1986 German Edition: Die Aktualität des Schönen: Kunst als Spiel, Symbol und Fest Stuttgart 1977 |
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Ed. Martin Schulz, access date 2024-04-19