In-der-Blog-sein

Heideggerian Denken posts on the privilege of presence.

I'd like to begin with the question of presencing, or making present. As a being-within-the-world, I am at or exist as a 'here' (Da-sein, "being-here"). It is by virtue of my being a 'here' that there can be a 'yonder' or a 'there.' Within so-called 'objective' space, as constituted by absolute coordinates, there cannot be a 'there' as there are no privileged points in space; there are only objective distances between points in homogenous space. But with Dasein, as the being that is concerned with being, including its own being, there is a privileged place that is Dasein's 'there.'

The 'there' is not merely privileged over somewhere else. I think that the 'there', as the lichtung, or the 'open', it is the basis of Dasein's understanding of the world.  ¶ 9:59 AM