ABSTRACT
In his writings on factical life Heidegger spoke of life as ruinance, of Dasein’s sense that life has not turned out as it should. Ineluctably drawn into the world by its proclivities and inclinations Dasein feels it has been swept way; involvement is experienced as fallenness. Always under way in a process which it neither fully comprehends nor completely controls Dasein perpetually seeks to come into its own only to find expropriation in every appropriation. As things go wrong and its projected retrievals misfire, Dasein becomes increasingly self-burdened and unsettled. Oppressed by the sense that in its self-dispersal life has been squandered, Dasein is weg-sein; being there is being gone. Consequently, Dasein in its thrownness has always already been put to work repairing the ruinance in a task as impossible as it is unavoidable.
