By Joseph N. Rees
ABSTRACT: Many commentators are extremely critical of Heidegger’s ambiguous conflation of Being-with and das Man in Being and Time. The text of Division One, Chapter Four shifts between an ethically neutral and ontologically necessary account of Dasein’s Being-with-others and an ethically saturated and contingent account of the same phenomenon, leaving the reader confused as to whether Heidegger is accepting sociality as a necessary and inexorable condition of human existence or a pervasive yet ultimately contingent impediment to authentic existence. …

By Nestor Bailly
Abbreviations for Heidegger and other works cited:
QT – The Question Concerning Technology
Ister – Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister”
WAPF – What Are Poets For?
SR – Science and Reflection
OWA – The Origin of the Work of Art
PLT – Hofstadter’s Introduction to Poetry, Language, Thought
Zimmerman – Michael Zimmerman’s Heidegger’s Confrontation with Modernity
Ferry and Renaut – Heidegger and Modernity trans. Franklin Philip
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Here the question of the saving power potential of art against technology’s worlding as the standing-reserve will be addressed. Section I will provide a grounding analysis of Heidegger’s notions of technology and art …