Heidegger’s World: Re-Enchanting through Thingness
This study investigates how Martin Heidegger’s notion of “the thing” (Das Ding) can help rescue modern disenchantment with regard to its root in the World, a concept developed from “being-in-the-world” presented in <i>Being and Time</i>, and later taken as a participant in the bilateral...
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| description | This study investigates how Martin Heidegger’s notion of “the thing” (Das Ding) can help rescue modern disenchantment with regard to its root in the World, a concept developed from “being-in-the-world” presented in <i>Being and Time</i>, and later taken as a participant in the bilateral <i>polemos</i> illustrated in <i>die Gestalt</i> (signifying Being’s strife to disclose itself against the Earth: self-concealing concealment). In Section 1, I analyze the occurrence of disenchantment by critically reviewing several thinkers’ discussions of it, pointing out that “faciality”—which has structured the modern Western understanding of reality—is the cornerstone of ontotheology, as well as the collapse of it: disenchantment. In Section 2, to demonstrate how Heidegger’s rediscovery of usefulness in a de-subjectified discourse of signification has challenged the positivistic view attached to “faciality”, I examine Heidegger’s idea of “readiness-to-hand,” revealing the basic temporal–spatial units composing the “handiness” of <i>categorical</i> beings and its relation to Dasein, progressing thereon to the analysis of a thing-centered worldview of Heidegger’s phenomenology. In Section 3, I demonstrate how this thing-centered worldview has the potential to form a preparative stage for re-enchantment of the World by uncovering the concealed <i>existentiality</i> within things, aligning with Heidegger’s <i>polemos</i> in his philosophy of art. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-ca6eefb31d7e425e8cc04c4690a5a3992024-01-26T18:14:29ZengMDPI AGReligions2077-14442023-12-01151310.3390/rel15010003Heidegger’s World: Re-Enchanting through ThingnessXiaochen Zhao0Philosophy and Education Program, Columbia University, New York, NY 10025, USAThis study investigates how Martin Heidegger’s notion of “the thing” (Das Ding) can help rescue modern disenchantment with regard to its root in the World, a concept developed from “being-in-the-world” presented in <i>Being and Time</i>, and later taken as a participant in the bilateral <i>polemos</i> illustrated in <i>die Gestalt</i> (signifying Being’s strife to disclose itself against the Earth: self-concealing concealment). In Section 1, I analyze the occurrence of disenchantment by critically reviewing several thinkers’ discussions of it, pointing out that “faciality”—which has structured the modern Western understanding of reality—is the cornerstone of ontotheology, as well as the collapse of it: disenchantment. In Section 2, to demonstrate how Heidegger’s rediscovery of usefulness in a de-subjectified discourse of signification has challenged the positivistic view attached to “faciality”, I examine Heidegger’s idea of “readiness-to-hand,” revealing the basic temporal–spatial units composing the “handiness” of <i>categorical</i> beings and its relation to Dasein, progressing thereon to the analysis of a thing-centered worldview of Heidegger’s phenomenology. In Section 3, I demonstrate how this thing-centered worldview has the potential to form a preparative stage for re-enchantment of the World by uncovering the concealed <i>existentiality</i> within things, aligning with Heidegger’s <i>polemos</i> in his philosophy of art.https://www.mdpi.com/2077-1444/15/1/3Heidegger<i>Das Ding</i>being-in-the-worldreadiness-to-handdisenchantmentexistentiality |
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