Dasein - Monoskop

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in the Dasein-centered approach of Being and Time. However, Heidegger
later comes to realize that Dasein is far too easily conceived
of as yet a new subject, as the kind of notion Dasein was meant to
exorcize from philosophy. Starting from Dasein leads to conceptual
difficulties in other ways, too, for Dasein's constituting activity is
difficult to combine with the claim that Dasein always lives within
a universal medium of meaning. Thus Heidegger had to resort to
expressions like "thrown project". The Husserlian residue in this
expression lies with the word "project", while the word "thrown"
refers to the pre-givenness of the world as a universal medium and
reflects Heidegger's new way of thinking.
During the period we are now considering Heidegger not only
gives up existential analysis, but he also gives up the idea of hermeneutical
phenomenology. His contention is no longer that we can
arrive—albeit in a circular fashion—at the one true meaning of Being.
Being as the transcendental condition of language and the world
is in the main ineffable, equally ineffable for phenomenology, for an
analytical philosophy of language, or for hermeneutics.
These indications of the differences between Being and Time
and Heidegger's later thought will have to suffice for the purposes of
my interpretation, since a detailed study of Heidegger's development
lies far beyond the scope of this study. Nor shall I tackle the question
as to Heidegger's development during the period from 1930 to his
death. In any case, such studies are possible only once much more of
the still unpublished and inaccessible material can be used. We may
also need more reliable and critical editions for that purpose than
the current Gesamtausgabe. 236
I shall spell out in three steps Heidegger's belief in language
as the universal medium in his later thought on language and art.
First, I shall introduce what I take to be the main theses of Heidegger's
conception of art as it is presented in "The Origin of the Work
of Art". 237 This article seems to be a natural starting point since
it presents us with the later Heidegger's views on art, truth, and
language in a straightforward fashion. Subsequently, I shall broaden
the scope of my discussion by summarizing and extensively quoting
Heidegger's main ideas on Being and language. Since these ideas
are scattered throughout dozens of books and articles, they seem