ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Martin Heidegger's philosophy and introduces two types of time, drawn from Heidegger's book Being and Time, as well as others of his. It shows how executions are not about to stop or die out, but, instead, that executions can be severed from their commanding order, leaving intact our pristine ability to carry out executions under a wholly different imperative. The chapter establishes that executive education is an especially productive site for understanding Heidegger's non-commonsensical notion of death. The reason death is so important to Heidegger, in Being and Time at least, is that death discloses one's futurity. In a technicist age prone to superficiality and anti-intellectualism, executive education would do well to demonstrate how it is prepared to ditch its blokeish register and its one-dimensional philistinism. By far the best extant summary of the secondary literature's wide variety of explanations of Heidegger's notion of death is the one given by Hubert Dreyfus.
