According to one of Heidgger’s famous analyses in Being and Time, the emotion, mood, or attunement (Befindlichkeit) of what he calls anxiety (Angst) temporalizes itself into and as the adventing of advent, the coming-to of the to-come (the authentic “future,” German Zukunft), that retrieves or repeats what has been (das Gewesene, the authentic past) in the bare blink of an eye (the authentic moment, now, or present: Augenblick, which the old, standard English translation of Being and Time by John MacQuarrie and Edward Robinson renders as “moment of vision”). So too, according to Heidegger, does every “state-of-mind” (MacQuarrie and Robinson’s translation of Heidegger’s German term Befindlichkeit) temporalize itself in one way or another—and, crucially, always as a version either of authentic time, or of inauthentic time, but either way “simultaneously” in all three of time’s dimensions.

Just so does the state of mind called rage, too, temporalize itself. Indeed, read as the very spirit of what Nietzsche calls revenge, rage, like what Heidegger calls anxiety, is not just one way among others in which temporality temporalizes itself, but is, instead, a form of fundamental temporalization. Rage, conceived along Nietzschean lines, is like Heideggerian anxiety in being what Heidegger will soon enough after Being and Time come to call a “fundamental mood” or “fundamental attunement”–a Grundstimmung.

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