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Situation and Limitation: Making Sense of Heidegger on Thrownness
Author(s) -
Withy Katherine
Publication year - 2014
Publication title -
european journal of philosophy
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.42
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1468-0378
pISSN - 0966-8373
DOI - 10.1111/j.1468-0378.2011.00471.x
Subject(s) - situated , interpretation (philosophy) , epistemology , context (archaeology) , grammar , sociology , philosophy , linguistics , computer science , history , artificial intelligence , archaeology
As Heidegger acknowledges, our understanding is essentially situated and so limited by the context and tradition into which it is thrown. But this ‘situatedness’ does not exhaust Heidegger's concept of ‘thrownness’. By examining this concept and its grammar, I develop a more complete interpretation. I identify several different kinds of finitude or limitation in our understanding, and touch on ways in which we confront and carry different dimensions of our past.