Here, There, Nowhere

For Heidegger, the here-there dimension of radial Spatiality is contained within a more fundamental There, to which there corresponds for him no equally fundamental Here. This treatment of the There suggests that he might agree with Thomas Nagle's characterization of it as a 'view from nowhere'. However, such an apparent escape to from any 'here' to Nowhere is only a vestige of the traditional philosophical effort to de-corporealize Experience. Rather, this Nowhere is, in actuality, a Here, just one that is distinct from the 'here' that appears to it within experience. That distinction is internal to Here: a Now-Then, i. e. itsTemporal dimension. In other words, Nagel's Nowhere is actually a new Here, and Heidegger's There is actually a Then, i. e. the immediate past of the new Here.