The Seba library treats Facticity in 9 passages, across 6 authors (including Heidegger, Martin, Merleau-Ponty, Maurice, Gallagher, Shaun).
Dasein never ‘finds itself’ except as a thrown Fact.
This passage states the core Heideggerian position: facticity is Dasein’s thrownness, the irreducible ‘that-it-is’ which can never be grounded in a present-at-hand origin or freely chosen self-constitution.
, Being and Time, 1962thesis
it leaves reason and order themselves with the character of facticity. If a universal constituting consciousness were possible, the opacity of the fact would disappear.
Merleau-Ponty argues that phenomenological recognition of perceptual order does not overcome facticity but rather reveals that rationality itself rests on an irreducible factical opacity which a constituting idealism would have to efface.
, Phenomenology of Perception, 1962thesis
These are not only objective, physical facts; they are facticities to which my body reacts and with which it copes. Much of the reacting and coping may be describable in terms of neurophysiological functions, but neither the fact of the matter, nor the facticity of embodiment, is fully reducible to or identical with the firing of neurons.
Gallagher extends facticity from existential ontology into embodied cognition, arguing that the body’s environmental and physiological givenness constitutes a layer of factical constraint irreducible to neurophysiological description.
, How the Body Shapes the Mind, 2005thesis
The presence of being-self-in-the-world is finally pulled in the direction of Heideggerian facticity. I doubt that facticity is the best key for reinterpreting Aristotle’s energeia and entelekheia.
Ricoeur critically interrogates the Heideggerian primacy of facticity, arguing that it may not adequately capture the Aristotelian sense of actuality as the mode in which we exist, thereby introducing a productive tension between facticity and entelechial selfhood.
, Oneself as Another, 1992thesis
the world of the psychoanalytic frame; the world of reality (the patient’s and the analyst’s); the world of limitation and facticity and history.
Kalsched deploys facticity clinically to name the constraining, unchosen conditions of the therapeutic frame — fees, time limits, the analyst’s separate life — that interrupt the idealising transference and enforce encounter with given reality.
, The Inner World of Trauma: Archetypal Defences of the Personal Spirit, 1996supporting
Faktizitat: *facticity
The glossary entry formally establishes the canonical translation of Faktizität as ‘facticity,’ anchoring the technical usage employed throughout Being and Time and its reception.
, Being and Time, 1962supporting
the stone brings facticity, objectivity. It stands there emblematic of the final freedom from subjectivity.
Hillman transposes facticity into an archetypal-alchemical register, treating the stone’s hard, self-enclosed particularity as an emblem of the world’s irreducible givenness beyond subjective projection.
, Alchemical Psychology, 2010supporting
h. ofDasein’s facticity: H. 72 n. i
The index entry cross-referencing ‘historicality of Dasein’s facticity’ signals that for Heidegger facticity is not a static given but is itself historially structured, binding thrownness to the temporalising movement of Dasein.
, Being and Time, 1962supporting
historiology, like any science, is, as a kind of Being of Dasein, factically ‘dependent’ at any time on the ‘prevailing world-view’.
Heidegger notes that even the scientific enterprise of historiology is factically conditioned by its historical moment, illustrating how facticity pervades all modes of Dasein’s disclosure.
, Being and Time, 1962aside