- Published in print:
- 2011
- Published Online:
- June 2013
- ISBN:
- 9780804775380
- eISBN:
- 9780804778978
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Stanford University Press
- DOI:
- 10.11126/stanford/9780804775380.003.0005
- Subject:
- Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind
This chapter examines Martin Heidegger's thoughts on the concept of distraction. It suggests that Heidegger believed that the process of distraction involves the existents finding themselves thrown ...
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This chapter examines Martin Heidegger's thoughts on the concept of distraction. It suggests that Heidegger believed that the process of distraction involves the existents finding themselves thrown into a situation they did not make, being dispersed into non-originary modes of relation to things and falling into distraction about it. It explains that in his Being and Time Heidegger also asserted that the fact of not-thinking appears in a mode that is other than or less than pure thought. This chapter also considers the philosophical implications of Heidegger's transcendent or transcending distraction.Less
This chapter examines Martin Heidegger's thoughts on the concept of distraction. It suggests that Heidegger believed that the process of distraction involves the existents finding themselves thrown into a situation they did not make, being dispersed into non-originary modes of relation to things and falling into distraction about it. It explains that in his Being and Time Heidegger also asserted that the fact of not-thinking appears in a mode that is other than or less than pure thought. This chapter also considers the philosophical implications of Heidegger's transcendent or transcending distraction.
