Jemeinigkeit
Each Dasein's existence is irreducibly its own; death, which each of us undergoes alone, is the plainest case.
In lecture order, as Marci Shore presents each view. The time opens that minute of the lecture on YouTube.
Death singles each of us out, because everyone dies alone. It is the one moment that is truly mine (Jemeinigkeit), belonging to no one else.
In the text In Being and Time (1927; Macquarrie and Robinson translation), mineness belongs to all of Dasein's being: §9 says "The Being of any such entity is in each case mine"; §47 says death "is in every case mine".
By making death anonymous, the camps emptied it of meaning as the end of a fulfilled life; the victim's death only sealed the fact that he "had never really existed."
Put simply Arendt: in the camps, death was made anonymous, so it could no longer mark the end of a full life. The victim's death only confirmed that he "had never really existed."
Arendt on anonymous death in the camps reads, to Shore, as something of a polemic with Heidegger, for whom one's own death was the single thing absolutely one's own.
Put simply Shore: Arendt's point about anonymous death in the camps reads partly as an argument with Heidegger, for whom your own death was the one thing absolutely your own.
1 link between claims that both use the term. Each shows the earlier claim, then the later one that answers it. “Our inference” marks a link Shore does not state outright.
HeideggerDeath singles each of us out, because everyone dies alone. It is the one moment that is truly mine (Jemeinigkeit), belonging to no one else. L12 · 44:30
ArendtBy making death anonymous, the camps emptied it of meaning as the end of a fulfilled life; the victim's death only sealed the fact that he "had never really existed." L15 · 42:18
Anonymous mass death strips away the "mineness" of death that Heidegger made the core of authenticity
Terms that appear in the same claims.