Paradigms of Heidegger

Posted on March 16, 2010
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The different paradigms for reading Heidegger. Gives the main schools of thought as well as a new model that challenges William Richardson a little. (I’m partial to Richardson’s view that the change is primarily a change in focus – although clearly there are some differences in his thought) This is a fantastic paper to get at the main definitions of Heidegger and cut through a lot of the cruft.

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1 Michael Dorfman on March 22nd, 2010 5:22 am

Sheehan’s paper is probably the best piece of work on Heidegger I’ve read in years.

It is a scandal that forty years after the publication of Being and Time Heidegger’s key term Dasein is still usually left in the German. Translating it as with variations on “there” is bad enough, but leaving it untranslated is no better. That’s like issuing a promissory note: “Let the word Dasein stand for the unknown, and when we figure out what it means, we’ll get back to you.”

Yeah, I really liked that particular quote. That said, I’m not sure translating it as “the open” is necessarily better than “there being.” (Sheehan, quoting Richardson, acknowledges this – but I think he only sees it as awkward while not acknowledging that it carries its own misleading connotations) But certainly talking about it as the open brings out an essential feature that is lost when we focus on the word “there.”

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