attunement (Stimmung)

is a basic constituent of our world-hood – it is impossible, if one is alive, not to be attuned in some way or another. It is why certain features of the environment stand out for us as relevant, while others are just not noticed.

Such attunement is a basic constituent of our world-hood – it is impossible, if one is alive, not to be attuned in some way or another. It is why certain features of the environment stand out for us as relevant, while others are just not noticed. In the case of the broken lock, for instance, it is a mild sense of fear that attunes or highlights the woman’s familiar world, determining her decision not to leave her house yet (see BT 179–82).

is not some fleeting emotional state, but a general unthematized sense of things as a whole, the pervasive coloring under which they show up as mattering or not mattering.

By ‘attunement’ (Stimmung), Heidegger does not mean some fleeting emotional state, but a general unthematized sense of things as a whole, the pervasive colouring under which they show up as mattering or not mattering.

attunement (stimmung), n.Definitions

attunement (stimmung)