Document Type
Article
Publication Date
2022
Abstract
Among the many words Heidegger explores in order to elucidate his primary matter for thought, one would not likely expect Schmerz (“pain”) to play a prominent role. And yet, in a selection of notes recently published in a limited German edition under the title Über den Schmerz (On Pain), Heidegger goes so far as to claim that pain is beyng itself. In this paper I analyze Heidegger’s ontological treatment of pain and his etymology of its Greek counterpart, asking whether he does not ultimately anesthetize his readers to pain’s most rending effects.
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Moore, Ian Alexander. “Pain Is Beyng Itself: Heidegger’s Algontology,” Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual 12 (2022): 1–39.
