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In the unique style of a “dialogue,” the author engages Parvis Emad in regard to the decisions involved in rendering the meanings of specific key terms in Contributions to Philosophy, including Ereignis as “enowning” and Abgrund as “abground.” To appreciate the import of these responses, it is necessary to place them within the larger context of the ongoing debate over rendering the key terms of Beiträge and the criticism over using “neologisms” in the English translation. The “setting into opposition” (Auseinandersetzung) of the sides of this debate does not merely seek the finality and closure of a “polemical” resolution, but instead directs us to the frontier of a new arrival and onset of Heidegger’s thinking.
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Notes
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Heidegger, Besinnung, GA 66 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1997), p. 428. Mindfulness, trans. Parvis Emad and Thomas Kalary (London: Continuum Press, 2006), p. 378.
- 2.
Paul Ricoeur, Sur la traduction (Paris: Bayard, 2004).
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For a further discussion of this issue, see Parvis Emad and Ivo De Gennaro, “Putting in the Seed: ‘Saying Again’ or ‘Approximating’ and Other Questions Concerning the Interlingual Translation of Heidegger’s Keywords,” Existentia, 19/3–4 (2009): 186.
- 5.
Ibid., p. 187.
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On the matter of designating eignis as a syllable and its intralingual translation, see F.-W. von Herrmann, Hermeneutik und Reflexion (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2000), pp. 49–52.
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For a discussion of terms such as replacement, exact substitute, absolute transfer in connection with the question of translating Heidegger’s keywords, see Parvis Emad, On the Way to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy (Madison, WI: The University of Wisconsin Press, 2007), pp. 10–16.
- 9.
Heidegger, Sein und Zeit, GA 2 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1977), p. 291.
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For “ereignender Zuwurf,” (enowning throw) see, F.-W. von Herrmann, Wege ins Ereignis: Zu Heideggers “Beiträge zur Philosophie,” pp. 1, 6, 17, 23, 30, 33, 34, 36, 40, 56, 59, and 94.
- 11.
Heidegger, Parmenides, GA 54 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1982), p. 20.
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Heidegger, Parmenides, trans. A. Schuwer and R. Rojcewicz (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1992), p. 14.
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Heidegger, Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), GA 65 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1989), p. 501. Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), trans. Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1999), p. 352.
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For a further discussion of the character of Rede, and of its implications for the three following points, see Parvis Emad, “The Significance of the New Edition of Subjekt und Dasein and the Fundamental Ontology of Language,” Heidegger Studies, 2 (1986): 142.
- 15.
GA 66, pp. 57–58; tr. 47.
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GA 66, p. 74; tr. 60.
- 17.
On this point, see, Emad, On the Way to Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy, p. 4 and 22.
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See Heidegger, “Vorbemerkung zur Siebenten Auflage 1953,” in GA 2, p. vii. For a groundbreaking commentary on Sein und Zeit, demonstrating once again the lasting vitality of this work see F.-W. von Herrmann’s` multi volume commentary of which so far three volumes have appeared: Hermeneutische Phänomenologie des Daseins. Ein Kommentar zu “Sein und Zeit,” vol. 1, “Einleitung: die Frage nach dem Sinn von Sein” (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1987); Ein Kommentar zu “Sein und Zeit,” vol. 2, “Erster Abschnitt: Die vorbereitende Fundamentalanalyse des Daseins,” §9–27 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2005); Hermeneutische Phänomenologie des Daseins. Ein Kommentar zu “Sein und Zeit,” vol. 3 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 2008). For an excellent discussion of the second volume of this commentary, see Thomas Kalary, “New Access to Being and Time: Focusing on Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann’s Commentary on Sein und Zeit,” Heidegger Studies, 24 (2008): 183–195.
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Schalow, F. (2011). A Conversation with Parvis Emad on the Question of Translation in Heidegger. In: Schalow, F. (eds) Heidegger, Translation, and the Task of Thinking. Contributions To Phenomenology, vol 65. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-007-1649-0_9
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