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Time and space are not for Heidegger co-ordinate. Dasein's spatiality is based on or ‘embraced’ by temporality, though this ‘connection is different from the priority of time over space’ that he found in Kant (BT, 367; cf. K, 199f./136): ‘Only on the basis of ecstatic-horizonal temporality is it possible for Dasein to break into space’ (BT, 369). Nevertheless, after BT Heidegger envisages a unified ‘time-space’. This is not the ‘space-time [Raum-Zeit]’ of physics, but Zeit-Raum , a word coined from Zeitraum , the usual word for a ‘period/interval/space of time’. He also coins Zeit-Spiel-Raum , lit. ‘time-play-space’, on the basis of Zeitraum and Spielraum , lit. ‘play-room/space’, hence ‘elbowroom, leeway’. Time and space are very different. Space can be conceived as the order and framework of things PRESENT-AT-HAND together, and is thus represented in a making-present ( Gegenwärtigung ), in a definite temporality. The representation of space is a temporalization ( Zeitigung ). But that does not entitle us to reduce space to time. Each has its own essence, and not only in the different number of their ‘dimensions’ as ordinarily conceived. But if we explore the essence of each, we see that their essence is an original, unified time-space: ‘But already thinking time through in this way [in its ‘ecstatics’] brings it, in its relatedness to the There of Da-sein, into essential ... log in or subscribe to read full text