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¹⁴¹ Heidegger, BT, 103, 403, 407.

¹⁴² Heidegger, SZ, 482 (BT, 416).

¹⁴³ As previously discussed, the ready-to-hand is an entity whose being is constituted by any assignment or involvement within-the-world. It is not defined by being a tangible object in space, but rather by its practical relation to the world.

¹⁴⁴ Mark Okrent, Heidegger’s Pragmatism: Understanding, Being and the Critique of Metaphysics (Ithaca and London: Cornell University Press, 1988), 87. ‘Extant’ is Okrent’s translation of vorhanden, viz. the present-at-hand. Despite its general indifference to the philosophical problem of history, the American pragmatist reading of Heidegger has gone a long way towards enriching the philosophical potential of the ready-to-hand.

¹⁴⁵ Franco Volpi, ‘Being and Time: A “Translation” of the Nicomachean Ethics?’, trans. John Protevi, in Reading Heidegger from the Start: Essays in his Earliest Thought, ed. Theodore J. Kisiel and John van Buren (Albany: SUNY Press, 1994), 195-212. See, in addition, Theodore Kisiel, The Genesis of Heidegger’s Being and Time (Berkeley and London: The University of California Press, 1993), chapters 5 & 6.

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