Heidegger's Manifestation Of Nothing In Anxiety

Now that Heidegger has established one can encounter the nothing through anxiety, one may analyze more deeply a response to the question “what is the nothing” and also to the connection between the manifestation of nothing in anxiety and beings as a whole. However first, it is important to note that though one can encounter the nothing through anxiety, we are not able to willfully experience the nothing. Additionally, anxiety reveals the nothing, but does not control it. Moreover, just because we’re not always anxious, doesn’t mean its presence isn’t felt. We are constantly exposed to this withdrawal and slipping away, of being faced with our finitude and the causing of entities to lose their significance. Though we are seldom anxious, the threat of anxiety and the open possibility of slipping away, and therefore the exposure to the nothing, is constantly there, and so is our Dasein. In that sense, our everyday life is an escape from this ever lingering anxiety and exposure to the nothing. This everyday life keeps us from facing the nothing and thus confronting who we are, our being, and hence takes us away from ourselves. The manifestation of the nothing in anxiety, makes possible the manifest of our human Dasein. Without the exposure of the nothing, no manifest of beings would be possible and we would have no relation to the world. …show more content…
Thus, anxiety makes possibility the manifest of nothing through the slipping away that occurs. Overall, the translation of Heidegger’s lecture presents the reader with a precise account on the nothing, and how the nothing makes possible the manifest of beings as for the human Dasein through transcendence and revealing to beings that they