Resumen de L'impossibile: Il potere e la morte tra Heidegger e Levinas
The question of death is one of the main topics of Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit.
Death, perceived as “the possibility of the sheer impossibility of Dasein”, reveals the impossibility as the extreme possibility, rather as Dasein’s ownmost chance. Not a case at all, it represents the end of all the possibilities of a finite Being, whose the self-appropriation overlaps with the “renouncing of itself”. In this regard, facing Heidegger’s papers, E. Levinas highlights that death must not be viewed as the possibility of impossibile – still a form of “to be able to” – but as the impossibility of possible (of every potentiality), i.e. as the overthrow of the sovreignty of subject.
About the meaninglessness of everyone’s own death, dying for another person symbolizes the extreme sacrifice, in fact it means not to leave the one is going to be saved alone in front of death.
