If Heidegger ever refers to Dasein as “the subject” I would be curious to know where. And in fact Heidegger relentlessly avoids any sort of mentalistic language, anything that would imply that he accepts the mind or the knowing subject as valid ontological categories. The terms ‘the nothing’ and ‘the subject’ are co-referential.” But Heidegger does not talk about “the subject.” That would smack of Cartesian subject-object ontology, which is accepted by all modern philosophy and which Heidegger is keen to "de-struct" (“Introduction” to Being and Time, in Basic Writings, 69-70 NB: my edition of Basic Writings evidently is different from Bryan’s my page numbers are normally two greater than his for the same material). I was particularly distressed to read that according to Heidegger “one is nothing. "īryan suggested that we might find his reading of “What Is Metaphysics?” too Sartrean I confess I did find it so. This commentary is part of The Atlas Society's 1999 online "CyberSeminar" entitled " The Continental Origins of Postmodernism.
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