thrownness, n.All

Thrownness is identified predominantly, although not exclusively, as the manner in which Dasein collects up its past (finding itself in relation to the pre-structured field of intelligibility into which it has been enculturated).

Thrownness is the idea that no one is responsible for man's being there at all, for his being such-and-such, or for his being in these circumstances or in this environment.

Thrownness is the idea that Human Dasein is thrown into a world that it never chose (this would later serve as one of the key ideas of the existentialism of Jean-Paul Sartre and Albert Camus).

Thrownness is not of our own making, and we can never get it into our grip; it is a basis that we must take over and can never produce.

Thrownness is the idea that no one has asked us if we wished to be here or wished to be as we are.

Thrownness is the fact that we are inescapably caught up in a world that precedes and conditions (often determines) the possibilities of our interactions within and to it.

Thrownness is term referring to the fact that a mood tells us how things are going, and indicates that we are always “thrown” into a situation to which we must respond.