PART TWO

Really Asking the Metaphysical Questions to Be Developed from the Fundamental Attunement of Profound Boredom. The Question: What Is World?

Chapter One

The Metaphysical Questions to Be Developed from the Fundamental Attunement of Profound Boredom

§39. The questions concerning world, individuation, and finitude as what is given to questioning through the fundamental attunement of profound boredom in our con temporary Dasein. The essence of time as the root of the three questions.

What we ought to find oppressive, then, is the absence of any oppressiveness as a whole, the very expanse of this emptiness as a whole. What do we mean by this expression 'as a whole'? How can Dasein find itself placed in this way among beings as a whole? And what is at work here when this 'as a whole' presses in upon us on every side? We shall designate the expanse of this 'as a whole', which manifests itself in profound boredom, as world. In accordance with what this fundamental attunement confronts us with, we must ask: what is world?

The moment of vision which properly makes Dasein possible is simultaneously announced in this telling refusal of beings as a whole. This moment is the look of resolute disclosedness of Dasein for its Da-sein, a Da-sein that in each case is as existing in the situation it has unreservedly seized upon, an existing which is always singular and unique. We are asking about what this fundamental attunement announces to us as possibility whenever we ask what this moment of vision is, whenever we ask what it is that occurs in and through this moment, whenever we ask concerning the individuation of Dasein with respect to itself.

We are not asking about world and individuation here as some arbitrary pair of questions, but rather as something which manifests itself precisely in the fundamental attunement of profound boredom in an original unity and structural link, something which only as this unity is capable of attuning us through