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I have said a little about Heidegger’s central notion of being, i.e. time and temporality, and have referred, rather randomly, to Heidegger’s assertions of the technological way of being called forth in our current epoch. Now I try to do these things. I do so by crafting a purpose for learning, as a way of averting what Heidegger refers to as the abandonment of being in the face of machination. As before, I use the word “machination” as the English translation of Machenschaft, as it is used by Heidegger; to indicate self-making—the consequences are the mechanical and biological ways of thinking about being-ness.
Everydayness takes Dasein as something ready-to-hand to be concerned with that is, something that gets managed and reckoned up. “Life” is a “business”, whether or not it covers its costs.
(Heidegger, Being and Time, 1962, p. 336)
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Notes
- 1.
According to Kisiel, in his 1992a translation of Heidegger’s History of the Concept of Time, the translation of “ursprüngliche” can equally be “primordial” or “originary.” I will use these as substitutes, making the choice on the basis of what seemingly suits best.
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Heidegger contrasts the readiness-to-hand of equipment with the present-at-hand of mere things.
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The structure of Dasein (added to quote).
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Gibbs, P. (2011). Heidegger: Time, Work and the Challenges for University-Led Work-Based Learning. In: Heidegger’s Contribution to the Understanding of Work-Based Studies. Professional and Practice-based Learning, vol 4. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-90-481-3933-0_6
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