Hermeneutics of Heidegger's Phatic Life

Abstract

This article aims to investigate the idea of phenomenological hermeneutics of phatic life in the thought of young Heidegger. The present investigation revolves around answering: what does Heidegger mean by factual life? To what extent is Heidegger’s hermeneutic phenomenology project characterized as a fundamental element to understand the factual life? In order to achieve the proposed objective, a descriptive analytical route of the lectures of the years 1919 to 1923 will be carried out, specifically, Ontology (Hermeneutics of facticity), Phenomenological interpretations on Aristotle: introduction to phenomenological research. With this, Heidegger seeks to understand the factual life, that is, facticity would denote the way of being of our existence, a way that is always and increasingly expressed there, in the occasional (Jeweiligkeit) world. When dealing with facticity, Heidegger approaches it in view of the intentional horizon constituent of the field of manifestation of phenomena, to thus make it possible to think the historically consolidated meanings of the world through phenomenology. In this sense, the Heideggerian commitment to understand facticity is the fundamental element for the development of its phenomenological hermeneutics of facticity.