Dasein’s thrown concreteness displaced pure consciousness as philosophy’s starting point

Evidence

Taking Dasein as a starting-point made it possible for Heidegger to achieve a concreteness in the description of phenomena which was unusual in the field of academic philosophy, and a way of handling standard philosophical problems which suggested that they were derivative or even meaningless. These two aspects of Being and Time were responsible for the reception which the book was accorded. In place of the pure consciousness with which Kant or Husserl were concerned, concrete human existence appeared, `thrown’ into the world. This existence, like pure consciousness, was concerned with the highest matters but had loaded them with vital significance. It was a question of authentic or inauthentic life. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 403

Categorization

• DEFINE: Explains how Being and Time’s thrownness and authentic/inauthentic life categories rewrote the subject of philosophy away from Kantian/Husserlian pure consciousness.
• XREF: connects to: Husserl’s phenomenology reified abstractions by forgetting consciousness’s productive role — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 2271; Existentialism holds that philosophy grows out of concrete lived experience — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 54; Self-consciousness no longer functions as an adequate foundation for thought (+4 more)

Broader Connections

• Existentialism sought lived experience rather than explaining it away through abstract systems #corroborates (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 1025
• Self-consciousness no longer functions as an adequate foundation for thought #corroborates (0.82)
• Existentialism holds that philosophy grows out of concrete lived experience #corroborates (0.80) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 54
• The self is the individualized completion of concrete situated consciousness #expands (0.75)
• Consciousness is being, not merely self-knowledge, so knowledge’s primacy must be abandoned #corroborates (0.72) — Jean-Paul Sartre, Being and Nothingness, 128