Ivo De Gennaro examines Heidegger's claim that “Dasein is nothing human” in order to explore the relationship between finiteness, forgottenness, and the nothing. Beginning with Heidegger's reading of Kant, the chapter argues that transcendence opens a horizon in which beings may appear, yet this horizon is grounded not in a being but in the nothing itself. Human existence is therefore rooted in a non-human dimension that makes subjectivity and world-disclosure possible. De Gennaro reinterprets Dasein as “therebeing”, emphasizing the openness through which beings manifest themselves. This openness is intrinsically finite because it is marked by forgottenness and by the withdrawal of being. Through discussions of anxiety, death, and needfulness, the chapter develops the idea that the understanding of being depends on a “nothinging” ground that both withdraws and calls human beings into responsibility. The chapter concludes that authentic humanity emerges only through confronting the non-human finiteness at the core of existence.
- Dasein Is Nothing Human A Note on Finiteness and Its Neglect
- Ivo De Gennaro
- Phenomenology Between Philosophy of Mathematics and the History of Philosophy: Essays in Honor of Burt C. Hopkins, pp.36-58
- Baratelli G, De Santis D, Vassiliou F
- 9781032937762
- 9781003567608
- Taylor and Francis
- 23
- 9781032937762
(UNIBZ)101828022
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- Faculty of Economics and Management
- English
- Book chapter
- De Gennaro I
- Editors/Supervisors: Baratelli G, De Santis D, Vassiliou F