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- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Series page
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Using the Lexicon
- Chronology of Martin Heidegger
- Abbreviations for Heidegger’s Works
- A
- 1. Abandonment of Being (Seinsverlassenheit)
- 2. Ability-to-be (Seinkönnen)
- 3. Abyss (Abgrund)
- 4. Actuality (Wirklichkeit)
- 5. Actualization (Vollzug)
- 6. Adaptation (Ereignis)
- 7. Affordance (Bewandtnis)
- 8. Alêtheia
- 9. Anxiety (Angst) and Fear (Furcht)
- 10. Anyone, the (Das Man)
- 11. Appearance (Erscheinung)
- 12. Apperception (Apperzeption)
- 13. Art (Kunst)
- 14. Articulation (Artikulation)
- 15. As-structure (Als-Struktur)
- 16. Assertion (Aussage)
- 17. Authenticity (Eigentlichkeit)
- 18. Availableness (Zuhandenheit)
- 19. Averageness (Durchschnittlichkeit)
- 20. Awaiting (Gewärtigen)
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
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- M
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- V
- W
- German–English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
19. - Averageness (Durchschnittlichkeit)
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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Series page
- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon
- Copyright page
- Contents
- Contributors
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- Using the Lexicon
- Chronology of Martin Heidegger
- Abbreviations for Heidegger’s Works
- A
- 1. Abandonment of Being (Seinsverlassenheit)
- 2. Ability-to-be (Seinkönnen)
- 3. Abyss (Abgrund)
- 4. Actuality (Wirklichkeit)
- 5. Actualization (Vollzug)
- 6. Adaptation (Ereignis)
- 7. Affordance (Bewandtnis)
- 8. Alêtheia
- 9. Anxiety (Angst) and Fear (Furcht)
- 10. Anyone, the (Das Man)
- 11. Appearance (Erscheinung)
- 12. Apperception (Apperzeption)
- 13. Art (Kunst)
- 14. Articulation (Artikulation)
- 15. As-structure (Als-Struktur)
- 16. Assertion (Aussage)
- 17. Authenticity (Eigentlichkeit)
- 18. Availableness (Zuhandenheit)
- 19. Averageness (Durchschnittlichkeit)
- 20. Awaiting (Gewärtigen)
- B
- C
- D
- E
- F
- G
- H
- I
- J
- K
- L
- M
- N
- O
- P
- R
- S
- T
- U
- V
- W
- German–English Glossary
- Bibliography
- Index
Summary
Averageness (Durchschnittlichkeit) is the way of everyday undifferentiated existing, in which Heidegger can analyze Dasein without having to analyze a specific, determinate Dasein. This makes it possible for Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein to spell out the general existential structures of all Dasein without attending to the concrete possibilities in terms of which any particular Dasein understands its own being. Along with distantiality (Abständigkeit) and leveling down (Einebnung), averageness constitutes the publicness (Öffentlichkeit) of existence, which is the specific disclosure of the anyone.
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- The Cambridge Heidegger Lexicon , pp. 82 - 83Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2021