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3 - The null basis-being of a nullity, or between two nothings: Heidegger's uncanniness
- By Simon Critchley, New School for Social Research, New York; University of Tilburg
Edited by Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Boston University
Book:

Interpreting Heidegger

Published online:

11 April 2011

Print publication:

17 March 2011, pp 69-78
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This chapter explores what Martin Heidegger means by guilt, which is something closer to lack in the Lacanian sense or indebtedness than moral guilt or culpability. Heidegger argues that the call of conscience calls one away from one's listening to the they-self, which is always described as listening away, hinhoeren auf, to the hubbub of ambiguity. The call of conscience that pulls Dasein out of its immersion and groundless floating in das Man, is nothing else than Dasein calling to itself, calling to itself by saying nothing. Uncanniness pursues Dasein down into the lostness of its life in the they, in which it has forgotten itself, and tries to arrest this lostness in a movement that Heidegger will call in the chapter of Being and Time repetition. Dasein is a being suspended between two nothings, two nullities: the nullity of thrownness and the nullity of projection.