Throwness Poem by gershon hepner

Throwness



Heidegger declares it is the throwness
of our existence that provides its onus;
everybody’s lonely as an orphan
because they are condemned to be geworfen.

Peter Gordon from Harvard University spoke in a seminar at UCLA on May 19,2008 of Heidegger’s concept of Geworfenheit of man, citing Ernst Cassirer’s “The Myth of the State” (New Haven: 1946) ,92:

To be thrown into the stream of time is a fundamental and inalterable featuire of our human situation. We have to accept the historical conditions of our existence. We can try to interpret them; but we cannot change them.


5/19/08

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