{
    "id": "gatherings-14-04",
    "type": "article-journal",
    "title": "Destruction, History of Ontology, and Factical Life: A Reconstruction of the Phenomenological Function of Heidegger’s “Destruction” (1919–1927)",
    "author": [
        {
            "family": "Scagliusi",
            "given": "Francesco"
        }
    ],
    "container-title": "Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual",
    "issued": {
        "date-parts": [
            [
                2024
            ]
        ]
    },
    "volume": "14",
    "URL": "https://staging.heidegger-circle.org/gatherings/article/14-04/",
    "ISSN": "2164-3345",
    "publisher": "Heidegger Circle",
    "language": "en",
    "page": "74-105",
    "abstract": "In this article, I argue that Heidegger’s destruction of the history of ontology must be understood on the basis of the task of the destruction of factical life. To do so, I first reconstruct Heidegger’s method of destruction with the help of the early Freiburg lecture courses. In this “phase” of Heidegger’s thought, destruction not only arises from a phenomenological necessity, that is, from the fallenness of life or of Dasein, but also has the phenomenological function of de-objectifying the objectified phenomena of life by tracing them back to their primordial enacted experiences. Second, I show that Heidegger maintains the same function of destruction in both Being and Time and the Marburg lecture courses. Thus, the destruction of the history of ontology can only be achieved through the destruction of factical life."
}