Tag: Bekümmerung

Heidegger had been using the homey but dumsy technical term Bekümmerung (”worry”) since around 1920. See “Anmerkungen an Karl Jaspers Psychologie der Weltanschauungen,” in Wegmarken, pp. 5ff.; translated as “Comments on Karl Jaspers’s Psychology of Worldviews,” trans. John van Buren, in Pathmarks, pp. 4ff. This term is most clearly defined in Heidegger’s 1922 essay on…