dasein

Noun

Meaning

dasein (uncountable)

(philosophy) Being; especially the nature of being; existence, presence, hereness, suchness, essence

Dasein (uncountable)

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According to Derrida, Sartre's interpretation of Dasein and other key Heideggerian concerns is overly psychologistic, anthropocentric, and misses the historicality central to Dasein in Being and Time. Source: Internet

As an example of efforts in recent times, Martin Heidegger (who himself drew on ancient Greek sources) adopted German terms like Dasein to articulate the topic. Source: Internet

Dasein is transformed in Heidegger's usage from its everyday meaning to refer, rather, to that being that is there in its world, that is, the being for whom being matters. Source: Internet

Heidegger coined the term " dasein " for this property of being in his influential work Being and Time ("this entity which each of us is himself…we shall denote by the term 'dasein.' Source: Internet

Jacques Derrida describes this in the following terms: "We can see then that Dasein, though not man, is nevertheless nothing other than man." Source: Internet

Jacques Derrida, "The Ends of Man", Margins of Philosophy (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1982), p. 127. Dasein, according to Heidegger, is care. Source: Internet

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