Ways of inhabiting the world. Byung-Chul Han and his readings of the Heideggerian conception of relations with things

Abstract

In the following work we will carry out a clarification of the Heideggerian influence in the work of Byung Chul Han, especially, from the distinction of continuities and differences with the conception of things, the tools and the intramundane entities in three fundamental moments of the Heidegger's work, both at the time of Sein und Zeit and in two works of the Kehre. From a tour and analysis of the main elaborations in these works, we propose to compare the scope of the critical readings and respective interpretations that Han presents in various essays related to his work No-things. Through this, we will seek to circumscribe the comprehensive and conceptual frameworks from which both thinkers conceive and thematize existential relationships with things, the environment and the world, which implies a certain conception of our historical-social ways of inhabiting the world.