On being insecure: Heidegger’s fears
On being insecure: Heidegger’s fears
Author(s): J. Peter BurgessSubject(s): Philosophy, International relations/trade, Security and defense, Ontology
Published by: SAGE Publications Ltd
Keywords: Fear; Heidegger; ontology; security; temporality;
Summary/Abstract: Security happens in the future. Threats to our security concern the potential of a future event, of possibility and uncertainty. Fear, omnipresent in popular culture is thereby non-uniform. Like time itself, it intensifies and softens, accelerates and slows, and disrupts and destabilises as a function of many variables. This article re-interprets the phenomenon of insecurity by reading it together with Heidegger’s analytic of time as a function of our proximity to being as fundamental ontological question, one which unfolds in the form of a threatening future.
- Issue Year: 29/2021
- Issue No: 2
- Page Range: 128-143
- Page Count: 16
- Language: English
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