Noun
dasein (uncountable)
(philosophy) Being; especially the nature of being; existence, presence, hereness, suchness, essence
Dasein (uncountable)
Alternative form of dasein
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