«Das Dasein ist seine Vergangenheit». On the Historicization of the Phenomenological Subject in Heidegger

The text aims to focus on the historicity intrinsic to Heidegger’s Dasein in order to show: 1) that it constitutes not only a reversal, but also, at least equally, a coherent radicalization of Husserl’s transcendental subjectivity, and, by way of Husserl, also of Kant and Descartes, and thus of the entire modern tradition; 2) that, even more pro-foundly than temporality, historicity expresses the very essence of «what we already always are», and is therefore decisive for understanding the way in which Heidegger describes the phenomenological method, insofar as this is rooted in a subjectivity constitutive of sense; 3) that it constitutes a decisive key to understanding the Kehre, which, starting from it, is again a coherent outcome. The historicity through which, in Heidegger, subjectivity receives the legacy of the modern tradition thus leads, in the final analysis, to an abandonment of its foundational role. Subjectivity is itself the result of a constitution of sense that precedes and determines it, and it is being itself that bears the essential character of historicity.