Everyday Being is practical engagement with tools, not detached contemplation

Evidence

The main feature of Dasein’s everyday Being-in-the-world right here is that it is usually busy doing something. I don’t tend to contemplate things; I pick them up and act on them. If I hold a hammer, it is not normally to ‘stare at the hammer-Thing’, as Heidegger puts it. (He uses the lovely word das Hammerding.) It is to go to work hammering nails. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 213

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces the practical-engagement model of Being-in-the-world via the hammer example, Heidegger’s canonical image.
• XREF: Connects to embodied skill and ‘ready-to-hand’ tools later drawn on by Merleau-Ponty; also to Heidegger’s influence on design and tool theory. — connects to: Tools and surroundings are grasped through the ends they serve, not in themselves; Heidegger accesses Being through ordinary everydayness rather than unusual states — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 212; Being and Time reverses the tradition by grounding Being in everyday life — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 211 (+5 more)

Broader Connections

• Practical involvement precedes detached reflection in his ontology #corroborates (0.90)
• Practical consciousness is non-reflective and discloses the world as instrumentality #expands (0.88)
• Heidegger accesses Being through ordinary everydayness rather than unusual states #corroborates (0.85) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 212
• Being and Time reverses the tradition by grounding Being in everyday life #corroborates (0.82) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 211