Dialogical Dasein: Heidegger on "Being-with," "Discourse," and "Solicitude"

Authors

Bradley S. Warfield, The University of Texas Rio Grande Valley

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

2016

Abstract

In this paper, I shall show how Heidegger’s notions of Dasein’s “Being-with” (Mitsein), “discourse” (Rede), and “solicitude” (Fursorge) illustrate how he has a conception of the dialogical in Being and Time. There are at least three advantages to proposing that Heidegger is a dialogist in Being and Time. First, this paradigm offers an alternative, and more perspicuous, vocabulary for describing the discursive nature of Dasein’s Being-in-the-world as a Being-with others. Second, it provides a better way of recognizing and understanding the normative dimensions of “solicitude.” And third, it helps to underscore the ineliminable sociality of Dasein’s understanding of itself and of others, such that its identity remains social even in the seemingly individualizing initial moment of becoming authentic.

Comments

Original published version available at http://janushead.org/wp-content/uploads/2020/06/Bradley-Warfield-Janus-Head-2016.pdf

Recommended Citation

Warfield, Bradley. "Dialogical Dasien: Heidegger on “Beingwith,”“Discourse,” and Solicitude." Janus Head 15.1 (2016): 63-85.

Publication Title

Janus Head