Thrownness - Wikipedia
Thrownness (German: Geworfenheit)[1] is a concept introduced by German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) to describe humans' individual existences as being 'thrown' (geworfen) into the world. Geworfen denotes the arbitrary character of Dasein's experience in the sense of its having been born into a specific family in a particular culture at a given moment of human history. The past, through Being-toward-death, becomes a part of Dasein. Awareness and acknowledgment of the arbitrariness of Dasein is characterized as a state of "thrown-ness" in the present with all its attendant frustrations, sufferings, and demands that one does not choose, such as social conventions or ties of kinship and duty. The very fact of one's own existence is a manifestation of thrown-ness. The idea of the past as a matrix not chosen, but at the same time not utterly binding or deterministic, results in the notion of Geworfenheit—a kind of alienation that human beings struggle against,[2] and that leaves
Thrownness - Wikipedia Jump to content From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia Heideggerian ontological conception of the human condition Thrownness ( German : Geworfenheit ) [ 1 ] is a concept introduced by German philosopher Martin Heidegger (1889–1976) to describe humans' individual existences as being 'thrown' ( geworfen ) into the world. Overview [ edit ] Geworfen denotes the arbitrary character of Dasein ' s experience in the sense of its having been born into a specific family in a particular culture at a given moment of human history. The past, through Being-toward-death , becomes a part
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