historizing

is nothing but to exist historically, which happens at every moment.

But so far, Heidegger says, his analysis has focused too much on death rather than guilt. In order to do justice to both sides of the story, we must look at the “historizing” character of Dasein: Dasein always histories, torn between the two sides of its being. But to historize does not just mean to write history books, since history involves a special kind of knowledge that occurs only in rare cases, whereas historizing happens at every moment for every Dasein. To historize simply means to exist historically, which may happen in total ignorance of all historical information. Heidegger rightly credits the philosopher Wilhelm Dilthey with major breakthroughs into the historical nature of human being. Indeed, Heidegger respects his predecessor so greatly that in Being and Time he makes no attempt to go beyond Dilthey’s ideas, and only hopes to clarify those ideas in terms of Heidegger’s own fundamental ontology.

is an a priori structure of Dasein's Being as care that constitutes a stretching along between Dasein's birth as the entity that takes-as and death as its end, between enculturation and finitude.

historizing, n.All

historizing