The heedlessness of the early aesthetes, with particular favor to Hegel and the phenomenologists, was, for Heidegger, a trying wound to the large of ontology; in Being and Time he writes, "...if it is said that "Being" is the most universal concept, this cannot mean that it is the one which is clearest or that it needs no further discussion. It is rather the darkest of all."
The history of philosophy has invariably strayed in the outer territories of phenomenology with small regard to the importance of the facticity, or perhaps more appropriately, the design or structure of "Being."
Heidegger's ontology is, to borrow Bachelard's terminology, the glimpse of an "epistemological rupture" of the intelligence, the shape, of phenomena. For Heidegger, we must shed the ontotheological sickness, that unique blemish on the skin of the West, and too the source of a rabid idleness that stalks the tread of our ontological situation. To triumph over a rotten metaphysics is to recreate the life-element part and parcel, willfully re-imagining the human creature as an authentic expression of itself - collating the insterstitial spaces between Dasein's intellectual habitat and the phenomenological chaos of the outer world, where the sense of being "at-home" is harshly confronted; the agoraphobic nature of Heideigger's ontology is a tragic waltz of the surreal - for Sartre, it meant a Dionysian romance of the life-dread, the true anxiety of the human being, with the flippancy of simply being "free." Here, then, Dasein is consigned to an intuitive "being-there" - a hypostatized experience as of wagging in the abyss.
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