desalejador

12:08 May 5, 2013 

Well, the hyphen was put there by Macquarrie and Robinson, and most people who use that term reproduce it, but I don't think it's crucial. They may have included it to reflect Heidegger's deliberate hyphen in the original German term "ent-fernend".

Frankly I think Stambaugh's "de-distancing" is preferable, and actually more people use that nowadays. For over thirty years after Macquarrie & Robinson's translation first appeared, in 1962, it was the only English version of Being and Time available, so naturally their terminology tended to be used by English-speaking Heidegger scholars. But since 1996 Stambaugh's version has offered an alternative. Joan Stambaugh, Professor of Philosophy at the City University of New York, is a great scholar and America's leading Heidegger specialist. Her translation is a superb achievement.

11:58 May 5, 2013 

OK, I see your point here. May have gotten stuck on the word "de-severant" itself, it seems like a lot more sources actually use "desevering" or "de-severing" (and a few spell it out as "removing distance" or something more literal) but something along those lines is indeed correct. If deseverant is used, though, I think it should be without a hyphen.

20:30 May 4, 2013 

Heidegger discusses many concepts in Being and Time. He often invents new German words to express them. Probably the most famous is what he calls "Dasein", which is virtually impossible to translate and is usually left in German by philosophers discussing Heideggerian thought in English. "Being-in-the-world" is another; he calls this "In der Welt sein".

"Ent-fernung", adjective "ent-fernend", is another of his concepts and coinages. As you can see from the source text, it is a property of Dasein. Needless to say, it is not the same as "being-in-the-world".

Your reference to "a handful of translations" makes no sense at all. There are precisely two published translations of Being and Time, one by Macquarrie & Robinson and the other by Stambaugh. They render the term "ent-fernend" in the ways I have stated. All those who discuss Heidegger in English use one or other of these English equivalents for this term, which is rendered as "desalojador" in Spanish (another invented word, of course). Most certainly they are established technical terms. When people say "being-in-the-world" they are referring to something different.