There’s anxiety and there’s anxiety.
In all of Heidegger’s labyrinthine convolution, verbal opacity, his analysis of anxiety is more literary than all else, a theme in search of a novel.
Philosophically it’s arbitrary and renders his analysis of authenticity entirely equivocal.
The protagonist in this would be novel is a spritely shape- shifting spirit named Dasein who, when the world falls away, must choose between being a being whose being is authentic or being a being whose being is inauthentic.
And in an act of unruly subversion, internally rebelling against Heidegger’s project to subordinate Cartesian dualism to its proper subordinate place, the subject-object monster Dualism, thought to have been so cast down forever, rears its primordial head as Dasein’s world falls away and as Dasein needs to choose the being of its being as being authentic or inauthentic.
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