Being And Time: Week 9 Guide
Being And Time, Division One, Part One, Chapter Three: Sections 15, 16, 17, 18
This week the goal is to understand how Heidegger’s famous discussion of ideas like equipment, ready-to-hand, present-to-hand, all come together to make up Dasein’s world.
We saw last time that the world, for Heidegger, is not merely a list of stuff or a collection of physical objects.
He reserves “world” in quotation marks for that idea.
The world is Dasein’s world — a world that is experienced in a unique way phenomenologically and that reveals itself to us through our dealings with it.
After reading this guide and the suggested readings below, you will have an answer to what makes the world in this sense a world — what Heidegger calls the “worldhood of the world”.
In other words, the being of the world that we are beings-in.
Suggested Reading
This week we will discuss the following stretch of text:
Being and Time, Part One, Division One, Chapter Three, Sections 15, 16, 17, 18.
This is a bit more reading than usual since we had some extra time.
After we get through Heidegger’s account of the …
