Abstract
Being is a destining sending. As the concealed origin, Being lets occur the presencing and essencing of entities in the openness of presence as the clearing, which is the human being. At the same time, Being’s destining sending implies a self-concealment of the origin. Being, as releasement, departs from the origin, so that the presence of its present parts forms the concealment of the origin as past and future. By withholding its futural complete arrival in the present, Being remains epochal and in transition, which excludes a constant presence of Being, fostering at once the oblivion of Being in the sense of a hidden futural origin. Heidegger names the totality of the dynamics of Being the ‘appropriating event’.
You darkness from which I come,
I love you more than all the fires
that fence out the world,
for the fire makes a circle
for everyone
so that no one sees you anymore.
But darkness holds it all:
the shape and the flame,
the animal and myself,
how it holds them,
all powers, all sight
and it is possible: its great strength
is breaking into my body.
I have faith in the night.
Rainer Maria Rilke, The Book of Hours
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Hölderlin poetizes in the poem ‘Remembrance’ ‘But where are the friends? Bellarmin with his companion?’ which Heidegger explains as the futural poets of the homeland who head shyly to the origin. HEIDEGGER, M. Erläuterungen zu Hölderlins Dichtung. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1981. GA 4 p. 127.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 6.
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Idem p. 6.
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Of the sense of a ‘step back’ in this text, compare HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 38.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Nietzsche II. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997. GA 6.2 p. 138.
HEIDEGGER, M. Nietzsche I. Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1961. GA 6.1 p. 598.
HEIDEGGER, M. Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1978. p. 183–184.
p. 150.
ARISTOTLE. Metaphysics IV. trans. Tredennick, H. London Cambridge Harvard University Press, 2003. p.151.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Vorträge und Aufsätze. GA 7 Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000. GA 7 p. 31. Compare das Fortwährende idem p. 32.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Holzwegen. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1977. GA 5 p. 327.
HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 371.
HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 191, 223.
HEIDEGGER, M. Nietzsche I. Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1961. GA 6.1 p. 542.
HEIDEGGER, M. Grundfragen der Philosophie. Ausgewählte ‘Probleme’ der ‘Logik’ (Wintersemester 1937/38). Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1984. GA 45 p. 130.
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Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 191.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Grundbegriffe. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1981 GA 51. p. 120.
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HEIDEGGER, M. A Letter to a Young Student in Poetry, Language, Thought. New York: Harper Perennial, 2001. p. 181.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Was ist Metaphysik? in Wegmarken. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1976. GA 9. p. 114. Heidegger approaches here the ‘nihilating’ of nothingness by means of an elaboration of the mood of angst. One should bear in mind that the text is an ‘introduction’, which speaks therefore from the receptive side of Being, namely the human being. We introduce the theme, however, from the dynamics of Being itself, to indicate it from its proper place without pretending that ‘nihilating’ becomes thereby more intelligible than it is in the experience of angst. Heidegger in the text makes the transition from the human being to nothingness itself by stating: ‘In angst there occurs a shrinking back before (. . .) that is surely not any sort of flight but rather a kind of spellbounding calm (gebannte Ruhe). This “back before” takes its departure from nothingness. Nothingness itself does not attract; it is essentially repelling.’ Idem p. 144.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Parmenides. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1992. GA 54 p. 209.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 6.
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Idem p. 6.
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Compare Heidegger on eternity as Being: Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 317.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Zollikoner Seminare. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1994 GA 89 p. 224.
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Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Die Geschichte des Seyns. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998. GA 69 p. 145.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Hölderlins Hymnen ‘Germanien’ und der ‘Rhein’. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1999. GA 39 p. 55.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 64.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Besinnung. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997 GA 66 p. 88.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 8.
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Idem p. 9.
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Notice that David Hume already criticizes the notion of causality precisely because of its absent and therefore metaphysical character, calling causal relations ‘secret’ powers. At the same time, Hume reduces causality to human habit, which is conceived of as a present structure. Hume’s fork grants being only to that which is present, whether as a matter of fact or a relation of ideas. Hume’s critique of the metaphysical status of the notion of causality would, nevertheless, awaken Kant, according to his own account, from his dogmatic slumber, and to this the transcendental horizontal position subsequently forms his philosophical response. The transcendental horizontal position renders, in turn, into Heidegger’s notion of the ‘way of being’, which is initially not grounded in human habit, but in Dasein’s temporality. Compare HUME, D. An Enquiry Concerning Human Understanding. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1999. p. 17.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65. p. 471.
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Notice that Heidegger in Besinnung, nevertheless, uses the term ‘Ursprung’ to indicate Being as origin. HEIDEGGER, M. Besinnung. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997 GA 66 p.12, 53.
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Idem p. 9.
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Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 183.
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Idem p. 183.
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Idem p. 371.
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Idem p. 371.
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Idem p. 372.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Grundbegriffe. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1981 GA 51. p. 120.
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Compare ‘essencing’ (Wesung) in HEIDEGGER, M. Die Geschichte des Seyns. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998. GA 69 p. 136.
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Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Unterwegs zur Sprache. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1985. GA 12 p. 179
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Compare HEIDEGGER, M. Parmenides. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1992. GA 54 p. 209–210.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Beiträge zur Philosophie. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 65 p. 4, 18, 45, 59, 81.
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Idem p. 4.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Die Grundprobleme der Phänomenologie - Sommersemester 1927. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989. GA 24 p. 193.
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Idem p. 438.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Die Geschichte des Seyns. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998. GA 69 p. 108.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 29.
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Idem p. 20.
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Idem p. 20.
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Idem p. 20.
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Idem p. 20.
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Idem p. 21.
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Idem p. 21.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Die Geschichte des Seyns. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1998. GA 69 p. 145.
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Idem p. 142.
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Idem p. 145.
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HEIDEGGER, M. Zur Sache des Denkens. Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2007. GA 14 p. 29.
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Geertsema, M.J. (2018). The Appropriating Event. In: Heidegger's Poetic Projection of Being. Palgrave Macmillan, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-78072-6_6
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