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Published online by Cambridge University Press: 17 April 2021
Averageness (Durchschnittlichkeit) is the way of everyday undifferentiated existing, in which Heidegger can analyze Dasein without having to analyze a specific, determinate Dasein. This makes it possible for Heidegger’s analytic of Dasein to spell out the general existential structures of all Dasein without attending to the concrete possibilities in terms of which any particular Dasein understands its own being. Along with distantiality (Abständigkeit) and leveling down (Einebnung), averageness constitutes the publicness (Öffentlichkeit) of existence, which is the specific disclosure of the anyone.
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