rewriting heidegger

Two traps currently ensnare heideggerian scholarship: the “language trap” and the “being trap”. to avoid them, the text argues we should follow heidegger’s important indication that movement (aka ex-sistential becoming or zeit) determines all forms of meaning (aka the significance of things or sein). this requires a radical rewriting of the terminology and the structure of zeitlichkeit in § 65 of sein und zeit. the text also argues for moving beyond heidegger’s early and late formulations of fundamental ontology and into a meta- ontological ethics that would apply to the economic, social, and political worlds in which we live our daily lives.

rewriting heidegger

two traps currently ensnare heideggerian scholarship: the “language trap” and the “being trap”. to avoid them, the text argues we should follow heidegger’s important indication that movement (aka ex-sistential becoming or zeit) determines all forms of meaning (aka the significance of things or sein). this requires a radical rewriting of the terminology and the structure of zeitlichkeit in § 65 of sein und zeit. the text also argues for moving beyond heidegger’s early and late formulations of fundamental ontology and into a meta- ontological ethics that would apply to the economic, social, and political worlds in which we live our daily lives.