Re-addressing phenomenology

Heidegger's thinking through the middle voice

Susan Schoenbohm

pp. 187-199

in: Burt C. Hopkins (ed), Phenomenology, Berlin, Springer, 1999

Abstract

The main focus of this essay will be the phenomenological method that Heidegger explicates in section 7 of Sein and Zeit.¹ Its aim is to address those interpretations of Sein and Zeit that arise from inadequate attentiveness to section 7. These interpretations mistake Heidegger's phenomenological method for a method in which dasein is to be thought as a subject by whose agency things in the world are disclosed. The terminology that Heidegger himself employs, coupled with the English terminology employed by standard translations of Sein and Zeit, contribute to the interpretations that I wish to address. However, if a reader gives careful attention to how Heidegger specifies phenomenology, s/he is not mislead (at least not as readily) by the circumlocutions of German and English grammar and syntax that suggest that dasein is to be interpreted within the tradition that gives priority to subjectivity.

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