Summary: | The purpose of the submitted thesis is to develop an explication of Heidegger's concept of existential spatiality. One of the components of this purpose is an attempt at independent interpretation of existential characteristics attained in the process and of constitutive structures of human spatiality. The primary sources used in writing my thesis are Heidegger's texts Sein und Zeit (1926), Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie (1927), Was ist Metaphysik? (1929), and Vom Wesen des Grundes (1929). The method applied in my thesis represents a combination of several approaches. It concentrates mainly upon interpreting Heidegger's analyses of spatiality of human existence on the basis of the above-mentioned texts. Such interpretation has, on the one hand, to correspond with the structure of the explications made in the texts; on the other hand, however, it has also to be based on one's own understanding of phenomena which are analysed in Heidegger's texts. In this respect, the submitted thesis is hermeneutic. Of course, in order to base his explication on his own understanding of phenomena, the interpreter has simultaneously to make independent analyses of relevant phenomena. Independent phenomenological analysis subsequently facilitates further interpretative development of the original explications found in...
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