From: "Blank" <gulio-AT-sympatico.ca>
Subject: Re: misunderstanding the statement
Date: Tue, 3 Jul 2001 14:55:01 -0400


Allen, Rene, others,

I have been thinking about totality in Heidegger too Rene and both
fundamental moods of attunement, anxiety and boredom. Reading mostly in the
fundamental concepts of metaphysics (GA 29?) and in BT from section26 to 70.

The aim of finally disclosing temporality as the meaning of care is related
to the question of a total mooded understanding of Dasein. To disclose
temporality as the meaning of care is just what makes the whole phenomenal
analysis "primordial" and this means whole or total. He writes for instance,
"If the interpratation of Dasein's Being is to become primordial, as a
foundation for working out the basic question of ontology, then it must
first have brought to light existentially the Being of Dasein in its
possibilities of authenticity and totality" (BT H233). In the next page he
writes, "In terms of temporality, the articulated structural totality of
Dasein's Being as care first becomes existentially intelligible". Thess
quotes are taken from the intro to II when the question of totality really
comes out. He goes to discuss anticipation and death in II, i and then
resoluteness and conscience in II,ii. Finally in II,iii he puts both of them
together as anticipatory resoluteness. Now in section II,iv it becomes a
question of giving a "concrete temporal Constitution of care" which means
going over again through understanding, state-of-mind, falling, and
discourse, the whole analysis, but this time in terms of the temporal.
Heidegger is clearly looking for a united total view: " The current temporal
Constitution of these phenomena [i.e. understanding, falling, etc.] leads
back in each case to that _one_ kind of temporality which serves as such to
guarantee the possibility that understanding, state-of-mind, falling, and
discourse, are united in their structure" (H335, section67).


Gulio Blank





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