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Not another Ted talk. Apply-Degger is a podcast series by the Onassis Foundation made for people who are curious, serious and interested, but who simply don’t have the time to sit down and read the 437 densely-written pages of Heidegger’s philosophical book. Slow down, take your time, open your ears and think deeply. Hosted by Simon Critchley. New episodes every Monday, Wednesday and Friday.
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Slow down, take your time, open your ears and enjoy the music. With Apply-Degger podcast series coming to an end, Simon Critchley teams up with musician, composer and sound designer, John Simmons to present a bonus track supported by the Onassis Foundation. In other words, this is the perfect season finale.…
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The relation between the construction and destruction in Being and Time – How the incompletion of Heidegger’s project has been exaggerated – The fetishization of failure and the provisional Heidegger’s marginalia on his own book – What happens when we destroy the tradition - Presencing out of the source – The end of philosophy and the task for thin…
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Episode 17: Existential Time and Vulgar Time
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Three conceptions of time: primordial time, world time and vulgar time – The genesis of the tyranny of the present – Time-reckoning – Datability – Duration or the span of world time – Inauthentic Dasein has no time – Authentic Dasein is its time and always has time – Take your time – Time first shows itself in the sky – Brightness, night – Tide – H…
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Episode 16: Historicity and Politics
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Death-obsessed male philosophers and the question of birth (Arendt) – The power of beginning – Stretchedness, persistence, movedness – Historizing as happening – History is rare – World history (a Greek temple) – The past lies ahead of us – Natural history – The ring – The loyalty of existence – Inauthentic history and the craving for the new – Rec…
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Episode 15: The Time of the Everyday World
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The repetition of average everydayness from the standpoint of authentic temporality – Awaiting – Rapture – More unfairness to Kierkegaard – Making present – Forgetting – Repetition and memory – Bewildered fear, a burning house – Beckett – Resolute Dasein has no fear – Anxiety in the face of the nothing of the world – A taxonymy of moods – Hope come…
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Unwavering discipline – Authentic Dasein is the unity of the three ecstases of time – The three-step rhythm of temporality – The future as coming towards itself – What comes out of the future is my having-been, the past –The past is null, but not annulled – The curtains lift on action – The future opens up the past and releases itself into the pres…
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Episode 13: Anticipatory Resoluteness
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What do death and the concrete situation of action have in common? – A puzzling footnote on sin – Holding-for-true as the certainty of conscience – Resoluteness is repetition – How death has power over Dasein’s illusions – Sober anxiety – The presence of Freud(e) in Being and Time – Joy - Discourse on the method – How we must do violence to ourselv…
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Exoteric and esoteric (Leo Strauss) – The 10-minute exoteric version of conscience – The much longer esoteric version: watching the ice-floe of Being and Time break up – The null basis-being of a nullity (the shape of the argument) – The peculiar character of the call of conscience – It says nothing (Cordelia in King Lear) – It is silent – Me, myse…
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Full metal Heidegger in lockdown – Why you need to become an existential phenomenologist in the pandemic – Authentic being a whole, the themes of Division Two – Unfairness to Kierkegaard - Death as one’s ownmost, non-relational and not to be outstripped – Virility and impotence in relation to death – How others die (Tolstoy) – The certainty and ind…
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Heidegger’s reefer moment – Ek-sistence – The history of truth – Deconstructing the traditional concept of truth – Getting beneath the theory of truth as correspondence – Being-uncovering – Aletheia as unconcealment - Heracleitus on sleeping like sheep – Preserving the force of the most elemental words – We are in the truth - How to live in a total…
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Four incorrect theses on reality - Empirical idealism (Berkeley) - Transcendental realism (from Plato to Meillassoux) - Empirical realism (Samuel Johnson kicks a stone) - Transcendental idealism (Kant) – Why the question of reality is the wrong question – Why Kant is wrong (about the subject, representation, and the priority of the present-at-hand …
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Bringing the whole thing together - Anxiety is way in in which the whole of Dasein is disclosed – Defining the whole as Care – The 12 steps of the Care structure - Articulated thrown projection – We are not simple - We are a hinge – We are a unified but multi-faceted stretch (future, past and present) – Temporality as the meaning of care – A stunni…
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Back to everyday life – This is not a philosophy of culture – Idle talking, gossiping, scribbling, updating – Curiosity, the delight in sight - Concupiscence, eye-lust - The horror of liveliness (Hedda Gabler) - Flirting and the phenomenology of the sexy – Ambiguity, the speed of life – Everything means something else – Being against one another – …
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Interpretation as taking something as something prior to propositions – The hermeneutic circle – Virtuous and not vicious – Judgement is not the primary locus of truth – Cribbing Aristotle – Comparison with Wittgenstein’s “Tractatus” – Important nonsense and silence – Taking things hermeneutically – The distinction between discourse and language – …
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The difficulty of stating the obvious – Not splitting the phenomenon – We are ourselves the clearing – The movement of disclosure and closing over as learning the rhythm of existence – The music of “Being and Time” – The four key concept clusters – State of mind, always already finding oneself there – Mood, Heidegger on the passions – Into this wor…
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We are defined by a ‘who’ not a ‘what’ – Dasein is the with – Everyone is the other and no one is himself – I am Nobody (Emily Dickinson) – Networked being – “They think me” (Rimbaud) – Displacing the Cartesian starting point for philosophy, the ‘I’ – Moments in the precipitation of the Self in “Being and Time” (Anxiety, Death, Conscience, Resolute…
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What is wrong with Descartes’ picture of the world – Extension renders the world invisible - Phenomenology and the destruction of the modern world picture – Why is this book not called Being and Space? – Space as room and roomliness – The unavoidable character of spatial metaphors – Nearness, place and neighborhood – Art and space – The sacred, tem…
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Episode 1: Heidegger's Project in Being and Time
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Making sense of Heidegger - Being is time and time is finite – We are a thrown open clearing – Hamlet’s question – Reawakening the taste for perplexity - Mineness – Authenticity – Average everydayness – Phenomenology – Dasein is Being-in-the-world – Ecstasy – Categories and existentials – Not seeing the world with philosopher’s spectacles – Factici…
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What is the world and how does the world show up? – Avoiding all ideas of subjectivity – Against epistemology – There is no problem of perception – We are the worldhood of the world – Our inside is outside – Praxis not theory – Why nature and science do not describe the primary phenomenon of the world – Handiness and thrusting aside our interpretat…
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