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Heidegger and the Weltbild

@inproceedings{Inwood2011HeideggerAT,
  title={Heidegger and the Weltbild},
  author={Michael Inwood},
  year={2011}
}

• M. Inwood
• Published 2011
• Philosophy

I give an account of Heidegger’s transformation of his early concept of the ―world‖ in Being and Time into the conception of the Weltbild, of the world as a picture, in The Age of the World Picture. Such concepts as ―subject‖, ―object‖ and ―Vorstellung‖, which in Being and Time are regarded as mistakenly applied to the world and our relationship to it, are, in the later work, regarded as correctly applicable to the modern world. In particular I consider the connection between Heidegger’s religious beliefs and his view of the modern world. I raise the objection that Heidegger’s account of the modern world is self-refuting, in that, if his account were accurate, he would be unable to give that account. I conclude by suggesting that neither the encapsulation of the world in a picture nor Heidegger’s conception of it is as novel as he supposes.