What is thrownness

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Priya Indian. Neerja Indian. For William J. Richardson , Geworfenheit "must be understood in a purely ontological sense as wishing to signify the matter-of-fact character of human finitude". That's why "thrownness" is the best English word for Geworfenheit. Other "attractive translations as ' abandon ,' 'dereliction,' ' dejection ,' etc. We retain 'thrown-ness' as closest to the original and, perhaps, least misleading. Jump to: navigation , search.

The passions are not, for Heidegger, psychological colouring for an essentially rational agent. They are rather the fundamental ways in which we are attuned to the world. Indeed, musicologically, Stimmung is linked to tuning and pitch: one is attuned to the world firstly and mostly through moods. One of the compelling aspects of Heidegger's work is his attempt to provide a phenomenology of moods, of the affects that make up our everyday life in the world.

This is another way of approaching his central insight: that we cannot exist independently of our relation to the world; and this relationship is a matter of mood and appetite, not rational contemplation. Such moods disclose the human being as thrown into the 'there' of my being-in-the-world. As Jim Morrisson intoned many decades ago, 'Into this world we're thrown'. Thrownness Geworfenheit is the simple awareness that we always find ourselves somewhere, namely delivered over to a world with which we are fascinated, a world we share with others.

We are always caught up in our everyday life in the world, in the throw of various moods, whether fear, boredom, excitement or — as we will see in the next entry — anxiety. But, Heidegger insists, Dasein is not just thrown into the world. Because it — we — are capable of understanding, we can also throw off our thrown condition.

Understanding is, for Heidegger, a conception of activity.