What are the Categories in Sein und Zeit? Brandom on Heidegger on Zuhandenheit

Author: Christensen, Carleton B.

Source: European Journal of Philosophy, Volume 15, Number 2, August 2007 , pp. 159-185(27)

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Abstract:

In his essay, `Heidegger's Categories in Sein und Zeit', Robert Brandom argues that Heidegger, particularly in the notion of Zuhandenheit, anticipates his own normatively pragmatist conception of intentionality. He attempts to demonstrate this by marshalling short passages from right across the relevant sections of Sein und Zeit in such a way that they do seem to say what Brandom claims. But does one reach the same conclusion when one examines, more or less in sentence-by-sentence fashion, the large slab of text in which Heidegger introduces the notion of Zuhandenheit? I believe not. First, however, let us look at how Brandom reads Heidegger, in particular, how he interprets the notion of Zuhandenheit, which, in contrast both to Macquarrie and Robinson and to Brandom, I shall translate as ready-to-handedness. ¹

Document Type: Research article

DOI: http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/j.1468-0378.2007.00252.x

Affiliations: 1: Department of Philosophy, Faculty of Arts, University of Sydney, Glebe NSW 2006, Australia, Email: Carleton.Christensen@arts.usyd.edu.au

Publication date: 2007-08-01