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    The Methodological Role of Angst in Being and Time

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    Withy, Katherine
    Abstract
    Heidegger’s analysis of the mood of angst is usually understood in terms of its contribution to the account of authenticity in Division II of Being and Time. I approach the analysis of angst from a different direction, by working out its methodological function in Division I. I distinguish inauthentic falling from the structural phenomenon of falling, and argue that the latter poses a methodological problem for Heidegger: if we are essentially entity-directed, how can we get the unity of our being in view? Heidegger overcomes this difficulty by analysing a mood that tunes us into the ontological: angst. I explain how angst provides this ontological insight, and show how analysis of it leads to questions of truth and reality. This provides a warrant for the placement of the analysis of angst in Division I.
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    Philosophy
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    http://hdl.handle.net/10822/761592
    Date Published
    2012-05-01
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    Publisher permits posting author's accepted manuscript.
    Subject
    Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976. Sein und Zeit; Anxiety;
    Type
    text
    Embargo Lift Date
    2016-04-21
    Publisher
    Taylor and Francis
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