Dissipation—Power—Transcendence / Heidegger
Dissipation—Power—Transcendence / Heidegger
This chapter examines Martin Heidegger's thoughts on the concept of distraction. It suggests that Heidegger believed that the process of distraction involves the existents finding themselves thrown into a situation they did not make, being dispersed into non-originary modes of relation to things and falling into distraction about it. It explains that in his Being and Time Heidegger also asserted that the fact of not-thinking appears in a mode that is other than or less than pure thought. This chapter also considers the philosophical implications of Heidegger's transcendent or transcending distraction.
Keywords: distraction, Martin Heidegger, existents, non-originary modes of relation, Being and Time, not-thinking, pure thought, transcending distraction
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