Definition of "Dasein"

Even in its failure, National Socialism refused to allow the question of Being to become the overt and pervasive question of Germany. It ensured that Dasein would either quickly find itself in its everydayness in the task of the reconstruction of an occupied Germany or not find itself, in death.

2005, James Phillips, Heidegger's Volk: Between National Socialism and Poetry, Stanford University Press