worldhood

is an ontological concept that stands for the structure of one of the constitutive items of being-in-the-world.

Worldhood' therefore is an ontological concept, that stands for the structure of one of the constitutive items of Being-in-the-world. However, regarding the world in this way does not rule out the possibility of trying to disclose its secrets by examining entities within-the-world. But the Being of such entities will not be discovered by inferring a presence of worldhood as something surplus and existing outside of the entities within it. Worldhood has to exit within them... already perceived as part of Dasein's being. Worldhood conceived of in this way, can be imagined as something surrounding both Dasein and the entities within the world with which Dasein proximately dwells. And thus we will arrive at an ontological conception of the worldhood of the world, which does not suffer form the framing problems of the other conceptions we have discussed. With this conception, we will be able to describe the world phenomenologically. [ref. 14, page 92] (munday)

is usefully identified as the abstract network mode of organizational configuration that is shared by all concrete totalities of involvements.

As already indicated, Heidegger sometimes uses the expression ‘world’ in a different key sense, to designate what he calls the “ontologico-existential concept of worldhood” (Being and Time 14: 93). At this point in the existential analytic, worldhood is usefully identified as the abstract network mode of organizational configuration that is shared by all concrete totalities of involvements. We shall see, however, that as the hermeneutic spiral of the text unfolds, the notion of worldhood is subject to a series of reinterpretations until, finally, its deep structure gets played out in terms of temporality.

is the Being of worlds, the essential structures that characterize every Dasein's world.

Worldhood (Stambaugh: "worldliness") refers to the Being of worlds, the essential structures that characterize every Dasein's world. "World", in quotation marks, refers to "the totality of those entities which can be present-at-hand" (93/64): stars, atoms, oceans and so on. Often enough, when we are theorizing, we think only in terms of the "world": we view reality as a collection of objects. We disregard the world, that is, our own involvement in a significant whole. Heidegger's ambition is to capture this phenomenon that is so familiar yet so difficult to grasp.

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