Assimilation of inauthentic everydayness of Dasein in Heidegger's Being and Time in Arendt's The Human Condition

Abstract

In this paper it is argued that the inauthentic everydayness of Dasein in Heidegger's Being and Time is assimilated in Arendt's The Human Condition as the features of the social sphere, as well as the consequences that derive from its conquest of the public and private sphere: the rise of mass society and isolation. Although all the ways of being of inauthentic everydayness are assimilated in Arendt’s book, it is Idle Talk that has the greatest preeminence. If language discovers who we are, according to Arendt, the human being isolated from others, automatically repeating what is said to be correct or incorrect in a mass society, is completely deprived of appearing to others as a free and individual being.