attunement

is (befindlichkeit) the necessity forced upon me to come to terms with those elements in my existence that all the freedom in the world cannot alter (the time and place of my birth, things i've done or left undone).

Attunement (Befindlichkeit: literally, how I find myself) is primarily related to the past, to our ' thrownness', our having been thrown in to the world, and imposes on us the stricture of facticity. There are certain elements in my existence that all the freedom in the world cannot alter. The time and place in which I was born, certain things I have done or left undone, all of these are inexorable factors with which I must come to terms and which I cannot alter. It is truly innovative that Heidegger places attunement and moods squarely in the center of his existential analysis... for two thousand years philosophers have acted as if moods did not exist.

is primarily related to the past, to our having been thrown into the world, and imposes on us the stricture of facticity.

is our way of finding ourselves thrust into the world. Having an attunement thus involves having a past, for I always find myself already attuned to the world in a certain way.

There is no ideal English equivalent, but we can use "attunement" to approximate what Heidegger means. 41 One's attunement discloses one's thrownness: attunement is our way of finding ourselves thrust into the world. Having an attunement thus involves having a past, for I always find myself already attuned to the world in a certain way. Heidegger will focus on fear (§30) and later on anxiety (§40) as particularly interesting cases of attunement.

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