Tuesday, September 17, 2019
Commentary on Alphonso Lingisââ¬â¢s article, The World as a Whole Essay
Commentary on Alphonso Lingisââ¬â¢s article, ââ¬Å"The World as a Wholeâ⬠Martin Heideggerââ¬â¢s work in Being and Time elucidated a phenomenological ontology in which death and anxiety function as the imminent possibility of impossibility, circumscribing Dasein and inscribing weight to Daseinââ¬â¢s temporal existence. He constructs an individual whose ontological whole is made of three fundamental elements that function as a whole; understanding, feeling and action. This being, Dasein (translated as Being There), exists in the world, and Heidegger constructs Daseinââ¬â¢s ontology as being-in-the-world. This is the way Alphonso Lingis predicates his understanding of Heidegerrian phenomenology in an essay from Research in Phenomenology entitled ââ¬Å"The World as a Wholeâ⬠. In this paper, I will review this article, for it holds two extremely interesting facets to be understood by any student of phenomenology. First off, it is a very well written review of Heideggerââ¬â¢s phenomenology: it spans from the work in Being and Time to the work done in Poetry Language Thought, and all the way to a later essay entitled ââ¬Å"Thingsâ⬠. Heideggerââ¬â¢s work changed radically over this time, and Lingis does a great job at showing a fluidity in his work, particularly through the notion of dwelling. Also in this article one can find some great similarities between the work of Martin Heidegger and Alphonso Lingisââ¬â¢s own work on death, anxiety, imperatives, the elemental and enjoyment. Lingisââ¬â¢s own writing rarely refers explicitly to his predecessors, his writing is full of imagery and refers constantly to experience, it can be difficult for a reader of Lingis to locate his influences by just reading his work. But, this work (along with Deathbound Subjectivities) shows Li... ...g experience as a burden, ââ¬Å"when we are in the mood of exhilarationâ⬠¦the sense of lightness of beingâ⬠¦is the sense of alleviation of the burden of being and thus presupposes and reveals itâ⬠¦Why not say that the oppressive, burdensome sense of the world presupposes the more basic sense of the lightness of the clearing around us. â⬠This is a key point in Lingisââ¬â¢s transition from Heidegger, and shows his Levinasian influences. In conclusion, this article is a great artifact for any student of phenomenology. Lingis is a very articulate writer, who can point out the most perplexing complexities in Heideggerââ¬â¢s work and lay them out for anyone to read. He also makes huge steps in realizing Heideggerââ¬â¢s limitations in his notions of equipmentality and mood by recognizing the burden of the world not primary to existence, that existence is primarily lived through enjoyment.
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