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Authenticity as Being-in-the-World

Hankins, Wes
http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1713711158987061

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2024, MA, Kent State University, College of Arts and Sciences / Department of Philosophy.
Within Heidegger’s work Being and Time, many scholars have argued that Heidegger’s account of authenticity undermines elements of his project that were set out in the first division. One common complaint is that Heidegger’s account of authenticity undermines his ability to account for Dasein as being-in-the-world. The concern, according to these scholars, is that the establishing normative force of the world gets stripped away through authenticity, which would lead to a worldless subject. My goal is to challenge these interpretations. I argue that authenticity actually brings into focus characteristics of the world like finitude, rather than creating a separation between subject and world. In doing this, I will lay out what exactly an account of authenticity centered on being-in-the-world looks like to show that it doesn’t create problems for Heidegger’s project.
Matthew Coate (Advisor)
Kim Garchar (Committee Member)
Michael Byron (Committee Member)
Joanna Trzeciak-Huss (Committee Member)
69 p.
Philosophy
philosophy; Heidegger; authenticity; Being-in-the-world; continental philosophy; phenomenology; existentialism; angst; anxiety; the call of conscience; anticipatory resoluteness; world; self; identity; subjectivity; intersubjectivity; das Man; the "they"; guilt; Braver; Zimmerman; Dreyfus; voluntarism; nihilism; Descartes; Cartesianism; temporality

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  • Hankins, W. (2024). Authenticity as Being-in-the-World [Master's thesis, Kent State University]. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1713711158987061

    APA Style (7th edition)

  • Hankins, Wes. Authenticity as Being-in-the-World. 2024. Kent State University, Master's thesis. OhioLINK Electronic Theses and Dissertations Center, http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1713711158987061.

    MLA Style (8th edition)

  • Hankins, Wes. "Authenticity as Being-in-the-World." Master's thesis, Kent State University, 2024. http://rave.ohiolink.edu/etdc/view?acc_num=kent1713711158987061

    Chicago Manual of Style (17th edition)

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