facticity

Facticity is both a limitation and a condition of freedom.

As such, facticity is not something we come across and directly behold.

The technicity of the world reveals the world in its facticity.

In moods, for example, facticity has an enigmatic appearance, which involves both turning toward and away from it.

Both spheres - the aesthetic and the social - then co-exist, each on the terms of its own 'facticity'.

The Look is then co-constitutive of one's facticity.

The ambiguity is that each of us is both subject and object, freedom and facticity.

Technics, art, facticity: these can harbour madness, constitute a danger, and are frightening.

One may turn away from a mood, but that is only to another mood; it is part of our facticity.

The fact is (conventional historicists are into facticity) that Destler coined a useful word.

Put simply, the implications are contingency, facticity, what Weber called 'Eigengesetzlichkeit'.

However, we've spent weeks now with Sartre and, in particular, with the notions of facticity and bad faith.

To be responsible a deconstruction must carefully negotiate the empirical facticity of the text and hence respond to it.

They see straight away what an easy step it would be to let the prison - their facticity, if you like - seduce them into bad faith.

Facticity is something that already informs and has been taken up in existence, even if it is unnoticed or left unattended.

Finality (being-toward-the-end) and the facticity of the already-there are in fact inextricable.

He was intrigued by the utopian imagination, but he had a vivid sense of the facticity of life.

For Zola, modernist content, though laced with facticity and contingency, was of the utmost significance.

Günther (1984) provides a definition and discussion of facticity in relation to the Dzogchen Ground.

"Metaphysical Realism", for Partenheimer, replaces abstraction and points beyond the facticity of the form.

Thus, for example, it is critical to Heidegger's account that facticity and thrownness are an irreducible element of existence.

Straight statement, unadorned observation, the love of facticity for its own sake - all these things, applied to ambitious writing, kept it sane and funny.

The latter cannot be seen or touched, but they are external and coercive, and as such, they become real, gain "facticity".

Sartre called it facticity.

Heidegger discusses facticity as the "thrownness" (Geworfenheit) of individual existence, which is to say we are "thrown into the world."