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Chapter 5 - Shared Action

from Part II - Forms of Being-With

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  18 February 2023

Nicolai K. Knudsen
Affiliation:
Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
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This chapter turns from the you of interpersonal understanding to the we of shared action. Drawing on Heidegger’s philosophy of action (as well as that of Merleau-Ponty and Dreyfus), I argue that we should conceptualise shared action on the basis of pre-reflective solicitations rather than deliberate acts guided by occurrent and propositionally structured intentions. In dialogue with Bratman, Gilbert, Schmid, and Zahavi, I show that Heidegger’s conception of existential selfhood – that is, the sense of self reflected back to us from worldly solicitations and saliences – enables us to account for several distinct types of shared action, depending on how the solicitation in question refers to a group of agents rather than a single agent. I further show that Heidegger’s notion of discourse [Rede] refers to the expressive (but not necessarily linguistic) and often unconscious process in which saliences are shared between people.

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Heidegger's Social Ontology
The Phenomenology of Self, World, and Others
, pp. 130 - 158
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2022

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  • Shared Action
  • Nicolai K. Knudsen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book: Heidegger's Social Ontology
  • Online publication: 18 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122672.008
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  • Shared Action
  • Nicolai K. Knudsen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book: Heidegger's Social Ontology
  • Online publication: 18 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122672.008
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  • Shared Action
  • Nicolai K. Knudsen, Aarhus Universitet, Denmark
  • Book: Heidegger's Social Ontology
  • Online publication: 18 February 2023
  • Chapter DOI: https://doi.org/10.1017/9781009122672.008
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