historicity

is that which, in its very fabric, makes possible the necessity of an origin which must be both internal and foreign to it.

It is no longer origin that gives rise to historicity... it is historicity that, in its very fabric, makes possible the necessity of an origin which must be both internal and foreign to it: like the virtual tip of a cone in which all differences, all dispersions, all discontinuities would be knitted together so as to form no more than a single point of identity, the impalpable figure of the Same, yet possessing the power, nevertheless, to burst open upon itself and become Other. (Foucault 'order of thingsr' 329).

is the idea that being and truth do not have a fixed nature readily accessible to us. We give different accounts of them at different times, and what they are at any given time depends in part on our questions and answers about them.

But being and truth do not have a fixed nature readily accessible to us. We give different accounts of them at different times, and what they are at any given time depends in part on our questions and answers about them. (inwood heidegger : 121)

is the use of the past to help shape the present. It is to use knowledge about the past in order to break with it.

might be defined as the use of the past to help shape the I present, but it does not depend upon respect for the past. On the contrary, historicity means the use of knowledge ' about the past as a means of breaking with itor at anyrate, only sustaining what can be justified in a principled ' manner' (Giddens 1990:50)

is that thanks to which past events and things can be meaningful to us in such a way that we can study them scientifically.

Heidegger calls it Geschichtlichkeit, historicity. It is thanks to our historicity that past events and things can be meaningful to us in such a way that we can study them scientifically. Furthermore, we can be authentically historical even if we are not historians (448/396).

is the way in which "Dasein stretches along between birth and death.

Historicity can be called the way in which "Dasein stretches along between birth and death" ( 425/373, 427 /375).

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