Who is the self of everyday existence?
pp. 9-28
in: Hans B. Schmid, Gerhard Thonhauser (eds), From conventionalism to social authenticity, Berlin, Springer, 2017Abstract
I argue that, for Heidegger, to be a self is to be a particular way of making some environmental affordances stand out as more salient than other, and of aligning affordances into coherent trajectories to be followed in pursuing our projects. When Heidegger argues that the self of everyday existence is "the anyone-self," he means that we tend to polarize situations into affordances that solicit us to act in such a way as to reinforce public, average, and levelled down ways of engaging with the world.
