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Thank you for this. There does not seem to be much written on Heidegger's idea of “work-world” (Werkwelt).

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Thank you for pointing this out. Can you send me some references for this?

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I was actually looking for exactly that, which is how I found this post. I initially encountered the idea in Byung-Chul Han's "Being as Passion" essay on Heidegger.

In it, Han makes the case that Heidegger's work-world is where passion resides, such passion produces authentic individuation, and to give up on work is to give up access to the World - and reduce it all to merely being an image for consumption.

https://www.beyng.com/docs/ByungChulHan-BeingPassion.html

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