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Levin interestingly explores the question of whether human beings are completely determined by history by emphasizing human embodiment. \u00a0He plays off of Heidegger, who abandoned the \u201canalytic of Dasein\u201d in his later work because he had come to see it as a continuation of the metaphysical tradition he was trying to escape. \u00a0What Heidegger missed was the notion that \u201cthe human body [could be] an organ of Being\u201d or the\u00a0\u201dprimal medium into which this pre-understanding of Being is always first inscribed.\u201d <\/p>\n
\u201cBy grace of the \u2018flesh,\u2019\u201d he argues, Being is always sensed prior to any clear theoretical ontological understanding. \u00a0A \u201cfelt sense\u201d provides \u201cour pre-ontological attunement.\u201d \u00a0As a result, \u201cwe are never completely \u2018in the dark\u2019\u201d as regards Being. \u00a0This sense is not complete: It \u201ccalls for a deep commitment to questioning and exploring its implicit potential: it needs to be recognized, made explicit, conceptually articulate, and clear.\u201d \u00a0But our embodiment means that we always already have a sense of Being and of transcendent being, and therefore \u201cour pre-ontological understanding . . . is not totally reducible to the understandings imposed by our historical life.\u201d \u00a0Heidegger could have seen this had he not overlooked \u201cthe natural body, the wild body of metaphorical existence.\u201d <\/p>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Levin interestingly explores the question of whether human beings are completely determined by history by emphasizing human embodiment. \u00a0He plays off of Heidegger, who abandoned the \u201canalytic of Dasein\u201d in his later work because he had come to see it as a continuation of the metaphysical tradition he was trying to escape. \u00a0What Heidegger missed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3021,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5479","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-philosophy"],"yoast_head":"\n