authentic historicality

is not settling dully into the comfort of our world; we will welcome the homelessness of anxiety as an opportunity to reconfigure and reclaim our home.

But, paradoxically enough, we are also capable of dwelling more intensely than an~ arnmal can. We are capable of challenging our own interpretations, reaffirming them or revising them; in this way we build ourselves a home for the future out o our past. Dasein dwells historically. In Division II of Being and Tt":e and m his later wntmgs, it becomes clear that Heidegger is intent on awakenmg us t~ our own historicity. If we are authentically historical, we will not settle dully mto the comfort of our world; we will welcome the homelessness of anxiety as an opportunity to reconfigure and reclaim our home.

authentic historicality, n.Definitions

authentic historicality