In-der-Blog-sein

naijablog is back in London:

It makes me think of Heidegger's concept of Sorge (care) being back - there is a layer of general care here that doesnt exist in Nigeria - care for the other. Even though the news is of rising homophobic attacks and train crashes, it is the response to these events that is interesting: so much earnest attention on prevention. In Nigeria, if a bus load of people die in a crash, no one ever knows their names, let alone think about how to avoid it happening again. It is an Act of God or force majeur that cannot be interpollated.

It's not that I don't care about someone dying on the Clapham omnibus, but for Heidegger Sorge meant something different from the transitive: I care about them. In 1925, Heidegger's was on about care as the being of Dasein.

It is this peculiar structure of the being of the entity, that it is an entity for which, within its in-being, that very being is at issue, which we must now grasp in greater detail. But how? We shall define this structure terminologically as care and designate it as a primal structure, the structure of Dasein itself. But I would like to emphasize expressly that this structure does not uncover the ultimate context of the being of Dasein. It is the penultimate phenomenon, so to speak, on the way toward the authentic structure of the being of Dasein. Care is the term for the being of Dasein pure and simple. It has the formal structure, an entity for which, intimately involved in its being-in-the-world, this very being is at issue.
P. 293

(ital. in orig.)

A decade later, people already weren't following orders.

The directive, already often repeated, to think "care" only in the inceptual realm of the question of being and not as some arbitrary, personal accidental, "ideological," or "anthropological" view regarding humans--thsi directive will continue to be without effect in the future, as long as those who only "write" a "critique" of the question of being do not experience--and do not want to experience--the distress of the abandonment of being.
S. 5

R U Xperienced?  ¶ 9:37 PM