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[Fiction question] If you collected Atlantic sea shells, which would be the prize of your collection?
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[Fiction question] Is there anything unusual about the dreams of twins?
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[Fiction question] What do you call the third-story architectural feature of this Victorian house?
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[Fiction question] What was the cost of a bowl of noodles in a Phnom Penh market in 1973?
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[Fiction question] What is the correct language for describing a loom that is all set up and ready for work?
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Yarrrr, matey!
Are you referring to Aaron Copeland’s “Our Town”? Love your referencing it with your answer. Not to be confused with Thorton Wilder’s wonderful play.
Thanks for your interest! Have you read Being and Time? You’re right, I have little time now to explain it myself, but I can come back to it in a bit – and in the meantime, here’s my copied-and-pasted notes on that section from my class – Simon Critchley is the prof, these are mostly his words:
Chapter 6
Dasein is Being-in-the-world, which is primordially and constantly a whole. How is the whole to be disclosed? Anxiety. How is it to be defined? Care.
Paragraph 40: Anxiety
Anxiety feels the Being-in-the-world-as-a-whole, lets us see this. In the mood of anxiety, the authentic self is first precipitated (see history of the self in BT, 3 or 4 weeks ago). Anxiety defines a free individual – this is felt, and not thought (ex: I think therefore I am); we are individuated as Beings that can seize hold of their Being. We fall away from the world towards which we fell – the cozy, homely world becomes the uncanny world of anxiety. For Freud, the uncanny arises from the confusion of the animate and the inanimate. It is like the tide goes out, and you obtrude.
Not concern, worry or fretting. Elsewhere, H describes it as a peace, or a calm. Anxiety is the opposite of agitation – it ceases, and I experience a tranquilized detachment (ataraxia to the Epicureans). It exposes you to the boredom that you are.
Compares with the movement of falling and fleeing. On anxiety as a kind of movement (229): Dasein discloses its ‘there’ in its movement of evasive turning-away from itself because Being is a burden. Dasein finds itself in flight from itself. In anxiety, Dasein turns away from evasion and turns back towards that which in face of it flees – that is, itself. Anxiety is flight from flight, falling away from falling away, and in that movement I am revealed as a self. This is how anxiety individualizes Dasein. Anxiety is a modification of Dasein’s movement.
So is the self alone in anxiety? Not really – think about the discussion of Mitsein, that Being-alone is a modification of Being-with. In anxiety, I just experience others alongside me with greater detachment.
Fear is what threatens Dasein. Fear is anxiety which has fallen to the world. That in the face of which one has fear is Dasein itself – I fear myself. Anxiety shrinks back from fear’s shrinking-back, and in this becomes courageous. This is related to the theme of choosing one’s hero, that runs throughout the text.
Anxiety is nothing and nowhere. In anxiety, the world becomes insignificant, meaningless. The world slips away, and there is nothing in particular. In the slipping-away of the world, the self obtrudes by finding that world suddenly insignificant. I see the world as an insignificant whole.
p. 233 – uncanniness – no longer Being at home in the world
Anxiety does not arise in the darkness, but in the fore-presence of ordinary experience (234).
Anxiety is when the object of fear has evaporated – when the object of your fear has gone away, and you still feel the fear.
Anxiety is rare.
Augustine, Luther, and Kierkegaard. In Christianity, anxiety is the mood around which the self forms itself.
me again See Critchley’s wonderful essay “Heidegger for Beginners” in On Heidegger’s Being and Time for more of his thoughts on this subject The whole book is great, actually.
—Regarding your answer apologize, as that was prior to my arrival, yet, I am learning, very quickly, that the collective has a wealth of prompts to aid the newly anointed, I will try to dig into the archives before I launch again – just feeling the moment – and writing with a bit of free association.
Thanks, FB
I, for one, will not answer a question if I cannot contribute something. I is unfortunate there are some who chain together words just to increase their count. I am glad we are like thinkers.