Akademik Veri Yönetim Sistemi
FLSF (Felsefe ve Sosyal Bilimler Dergisi), cilt.11, sa.22, ss.315-332, 2016 (Hakemli Dergi)
This paper evaluates and criticizes Martin Heidegger’s account of spaceand spatiality as offered in his Being and Time, predominantly in sections 22-24 ofChapter III. Heidegger’s basic argument is that everyday space is structured byDasein’s concerns. After exploring this theme, it will be argued that Heidegger’saccount of spatiality is vague and unsatisfactory because whilst emphasizing theessential interdependency and interwovenness of Dasein and the world, Heideggerfails to give a plausible account of the materiality of Dasein’s spatiality. His wholenotion of spatiality is built at the expense of the loss of Dasein’s physicalembodiment. It will be suggested that Heidegger’s motive in ignoring the bodilynature of Dasein stems from his worry of introducing the notion of (Cartesian)subjectivity into his account which would contradict his philosophical project.However, the absence of the materiality of Dasein’s existence eventually promptsHeidegger to present non-spatial concepts - such as familiarity and attention – asspatial categories, which constitutes not only the provocation but also the limitationof his account on spatiality.