situation

is a state of things in which something that will perhaps matter is unfolding amidst the usual activity of life.

Lauren Berlant describes a situation thus: 'A state of things in which something that will perhaps matter is unfolding amidst the usual activity of life' (2008, 5).

is the authentic way of being "there", of inhabiting the present in which one no longer exists as a falling they-self, but seizes one's thrownness and interprets it in terms of an explicit choice.

What Heidegger calls "the Situation" opens up to us (346/299). The Situation is the authentic way of being "there", of inhabiting the present. In the situation, one no longer exists as a falling they-self, but seizes one's thrownness and interprets it in terms of an explicit choice.

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situation