Human, All Too (Post)Human by unknow

Author:unknow
Language: eng
Format: epub
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Publisher: Lexington Books
Published: 2012-08-15T00:00:00+00:00

Heidegger proposes that the instrumental logic of “present-at-hand” means that we often confront the true “ready-to-hand” of the hammer when it doesn’t work or is missing. Although we might blame the tool for our failure, it is not the tool, but the intention that is at issue as the tool is still “ready-to-hand.” The problem of the “un-ready-to-hand” is that it cannot be grasped through the ontic, or “by looking at it and establishing its properties.”[46] He writes, “anything which is un-ready-to-hand in this way is disturbing to us” and it is when our intentions are “disturbed” that we can see the intentionality with which we initially and unconsciously approached the object. Heidegger argues,

when something ready-to-hand is found missing, though its everyday presence [Zugegensein] has been so obvious that we have never taken any notice of it, this makes a break in those referential contexts which circumspection discovers. Our circumspection comes up against emptiness, and now sees for the first time what the missing article was ready-to-hand with and what it was ready-to-hand for. The environment announces itself afresh.[47]

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