Worldhood of the world I has taken 3 full runs through... I suspect this will take more. These lectures are academically SO valuable when one considers both the relatively stunted summaries available on Heidegger and the 'oh I get it' response from lay-people. Thank you 🙏
Another great job. I appreciate the time you put into the clarity you strive for in your presentation. Incredibly involved subject matter, discussed very neatly.
Hello Professor Thorsby: I have a question that I hope maybe you can answer. For a while now I have been struggling with wanting to know what I stand to gain from comprehending Heidegger. Like what's the pay off? Well, a few minutes ago I was watching a video and came across someone who used the now commonplace retort "my lived experience" as a rebuttal in a debate. Suddenly the genealogy of that idea snapped into focus and I realized that at least one major figure, Herbert Marcuse--whose mentorship of Angela Davis eventually gave us the term "lived experience" as a response in polemics--was educated under Heidegger. So basically, my question is whether Heidegger was essentially trying to make all philosophers "woke" by forcing attention on the banalities of everyday lived experience?
Perhaps 'intimation/intimating' would be an easier or more familiar term in place of "de-severance." I found that better for interpretation as I have to fight a naturally arising connotation of "un-cutting," which was disruptive in following the content as opposed to intimating as a bringing into involvement and the process of resolvement in consciousness.
I think Descartes demon trickster is interesting to think about in terms of the state of mind one would have to be in to resist hypnosis - i.e. if the demon trickster was instead a stage hypnotist. Especially "I think therefore I am" - I don't think anyone in an hypnotic state is capable of asking a question. I think looking at Descartes mind/body dualism is harder for Hiedegger to critique in that context. Indeed, maybe their two views would amount to the same thing?
