The role of boredom and anxiety in early Heidegger

One of the greatest difficulties in understanding Martin Heidegger's magnum opus, Being and Time, arises in connection with his notion of disclosure [Erschlossenheit]. Erschlossenheit refers to the way beings emerge and reveal themselves. One way beings emerge and are disclosed is through anxiety. Anxiety discloses the world, and opens up the possibility for authenticity. Because Erschlossenheit is central to Heidegger's entire project, I deemed it necessary to analyze it. Rather than focusing solely on Heidegger's analysis of it in Being and Time, I decided to look for other works by Heidegger that developed this concept. One work that develops this concept is from the lectures Heidegger gave in the winter semester of 1929 and 1930 in Freiburg, Germany. These lectures have been reprinted under the title The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics. Heidegger develops the concept of boredom as one of the ways that beings emerge and are disclosed. The central task of this thesis is to show how boredom relates to Heidegger's concept of anxiety, and how both of these concepts disclose the world and the possibility for authenticity.