Status Updates From Interpreting Heidegger: Cri...

"the self’s fundamental self-relation is to an unmasterable thrownness, the burden of a facticity that weighs me down without my ever being able fully to pick it up. This is why I seek to evade myself. I project or throw off a thrownness that catches me in its throw and inverts the movement of possibility by shattering it against impotence. I am always too late to meet my fate."

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"Life is a series of repayments on a loan that you didn’t agree to, with ever-increasing interest, and which will cost you your life – it’s a death-pledge, a mort-gage."


I suspect Mr. Critchley is trying to amplify my anxiety ...

At times, reading a classical philosophical text is like watching an ice- flow break up during global warming. The compacted cold assurance of a coherent system begins to become liquid and great conceptual pieces break off before your eyes and begin to float free on the sea.

What a way to start an essay. I had not thought reading an old essay collection on Heidegger would randomly trigger my eco-anxiety >_<