Heidegger defines Dasein as local and historical, not universal

Evidence

Heidegger disliked the notion of universal truths or universal humanity, which he considered a fantasy. For him, Dasein is not defined by shared faculties of reason and understanding, as the Enlightenment philosophers thought. Still less is it defined by any kind of transcendent eternal soul, as in religious tradition. We do not exist on a higher, eternal plane at all. Dasein’s Being is local: it has a historical situation, and is constituted in time and place. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 291

Categorization

• DEFINE: Clarifies the key Heideggerian concept of Dasein as situated, historical being — exactly the orientation material the reader needs.
• XREF: connects to: Dasein’s being is constituted by time and place, not universal reason — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 291; Adorno’s natural history concept rejected Heideggerian historicity — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 386

Broader Connections

• Dasein’s being is constituted by time and place, not universal reason #corroborates (0.95) — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 291
• Adorno’s natural history concept rejected Heideggerian historicity #corroborates (0.72) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 386