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What, after all, was Heidegger about?

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The premise is that Heidegger remained a phenomenologist from beginning to end and that phenomenology is exclusively about meaning and its source. The essay presents Heidegger’s interpretation of the being (Sein) of things as their meaningful presence (Anwesen) and his tracing of such meaningful presence back to its source in the clearing, which is thrown-open or appropriated ex-sistence (das ereignete/geworfene Da-sein). The essay argues five theses: (1) Being is the meaningful presence of things to man. (2) Such meaningful presence is the Befragtes of Heidegger’s question, not the Erfragtes. (3) Being and Time’s goal was to articulate the openness that allows for all meaningfulness. (4) Ereignis—the appropriation of ex-sistence to sustaining the clearing—is the later Heidegger’s reinscription of thrown-openness, der geworfene Entwurf. (5) Appropriated thrown-openness, as the clearing, is intrinsically hidden, i.e., unknowable.

Some preliminaries

  1. (1)

    I cite Heidegger’s texts by page and line (the line-number follows the period) in both the Gesamtausgabe and the current English translations where available, all of which are listed in the bibliography at the end of this issue of the journal. I cite Sein und Zeit in the Niemeyer 11th edition and in the ET by Macquarrie-Robinson.

  2. (2)

    Sinn and Bedeutung are closely related, although Sinn is broader than Bedeutung. Sinn refers either to intelligibility as such or to the fact of something being intelligible, whereas Bedeutung is the specific meaning that a thing has. Sinn as intelligibility is generally interchangeable with Bedeutsamkeit and Verständlichkeit. Thus I translate Sinn as “intelligibility” or “meaningfulness.” Sinn in turn allows for Bedeutung as the particular meaning of a specific thing.

  3. (3)

    I take “intellect” in the broad sense of νοῦς and in the specific sense of λόγος understood as discursive intellect, whether practical or theoretical.

  4. (4)

    Dasein, Existenz, and Da-sein are all translated as "ex-sistence." The context indicates whether that is meant in an existentiel or an existential sense. The word “man” refers to human being, not the male of the species. I render das Seiende as “beings,” “things,” and “entities” ex aequo. All German words referring to ἀλήϑεια (e.g., Wahrheit, Erschlossenheit, Unverborgenheit, Entborgenheit, etc.) are translated by “disclosedness” or “openness.” Translations from the German are often my own.

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Notes

  1. GA 73, 2: 1319.23.

  2. GA 73, 2: 997: “Seyn ist nicht .” Further on : ibid., 968.7; 1033.10; 1039.10; 1122.7; etc.; also GA 9: 306 (g) = 374 (a): “ ist… das Ereignis.” But cf. loc. cit., “Sein qua Ereignis.” At GA 81: 76.18, Sein and Seyn are equated, but at GA 76: 49.15-9 they are contrasted.

  3. GA 65: 73.21 = 58.35-6.

  4. GA 65: 78.26 = 63.4-5.

  5. GA 2: 252, note a = 183.44; GA 11: 59, note 33; GA 76: 5.25.

  6. GA 6, 1: 197.9 = 194.1.

  7. “[The difference between being and beings] is the central thought of Heideggerian philosophy”: Haugland (2000) I, 47.

  8. GA 40: 34.31-2 = 34.16-7.

  9. GA 15: 277.17-8 = 5.7-8.

  10. SZ 211.22-7 = 254.28-33.

  11. GA 66: 316.26-7 = 281.32-3: “Anwesung und d.h. Sein und d.h. Seiendheit.” Also GA 74: 6.3.

  12. Cf. SZ 33.30-2 = 57.11-3.

  13. GA 19: 205.13-4 = 141.33-4.

  14. SZ 35.25 = 59.31.

  15. SZ 12.14-5 = 32.23-4. This text has stood through some seventeen editions of SZ (thirteen of them during Heidegger’s lifetime). But GA 2, which claims to be the “unveränderter Text,” changes it without notice at 16.23 = 11.15 to “nach dem Sein des Seienden.”

  16. GA 6:2, 304.11 = 201.13-5. See GA 2: 53 note a = 37 note †; GA 10: 131.19-20 and .28 = 88.27 and .34; and GA 73, 2: 984.2.

  17. GA 71: 211.9 = 180.1−2.

  18. Gurwitsch (1947), p. 652. Italicized in the original.

  19. GA 15: 20.8-9 = 8.34.

  20. GA 7: 234.13-7 = 78.21-4.

  21. GA 24: 29.12-5 = 21.24-6.

  22. GA 24: 29.15-9 = 21.27-30, my emphasis. Cf. GA 20: 423.4-5 = 306.29-30. Re “understanding”: GA 16: 424.21-2 = 5.15-6: “Verstehen, d.h. Entwerfen.”

  23. Husserl (1968) 243.30-4 = Husserl (1997) 91.12-4.

  24. GA 58: 105.15-6 = 84.5-6. See GA 26: 194.30-1 = 153.28-9.

  25. Husserl (1968) 261.6-9 = Husserl (1997) 113.13-5.

  26. Locke (2003), p. 111.

  27. GA 31: 51.11-5 and 51.31-4 = 36.8-11 and .21-5.

  28. GA 61: 90.7-12 = 68.6-10.

  29. GA 61: 91.22-5 = 69.6-9.

  30. GA 56/57: 72.31-73.5 = 61.19-28: “holds forth” = “es weltet.”

  31. GA 56/57: 71:29-31 = 60.23-4: “mit einer Bedeutung behaftet.”

  32. GA 58: 104.19-24 = 83.19-23.

  33. GA 58: 104.32-105.9 = 83.30-8: “bedeutsamkeitsgefangen.”

  34. GA 58: 105.12-3 = 84.3.

  35. GA 58: 108.18-9 = 86.10-1.

  36. GA 58: 105.22 = 84.10: “in faktischen Bedeutsamkeitsbezügen.”

  37. GA 58: 106.12-4 = 84.31-2.

  38. GA 63: 93.7-9 = 71.10-12.

  39. GA 18: 300.15-8 = 203.27-9.

  40. GA 64: 65.18-9 = 55.15-6.

  41. GA 64: 23.32-3 = 17.25-6.

  42. GA 64: 24.2-3 = 17.30-1.

  43. GA 64: 25.13-4 = 19.1-2.

  44. GA 21: 151.4-5 = 127.30-2.

  45. SZ 87.17-8 = 120.3; 334.33-4 = 384.1; and 166.9-10 = 209.26-7. Cf. GA 64: 24.4-7 = 17.34-5.

  46. SZ 87.19-20 = 120.25: “Vertrautheit mit der Bedeutsamkeit.”

  47. SZ 151.34-5 = 193.11-3. On worldhood as an existential: ibid., 64.19-20 = 92.31-2.

  48. SZ 151.22-4 = 192.35-7. The text continues (151.24-5 = 192.37-193.1): “But strictly speaking what is understood is not the intelligibility but the thing, or alternatively being.” The phrase “alternatively being” refers to when Sein rather than das Seiende is the focus of the question, as in Heidegger’s Grundfrage.

  49. SZ 364.34-5 = 416.8. See ibid., 64.19-20 = 92.32; 365.38 = 417.11; 380.28-30 = 432.17-8. Also GA 9: 154.18-9 = 120.24-5 and GA 24: 237.8-10 = 166.33-5.

  50. Cf. GA 9: 279.1-7 = 213.10-15.

  51. SZ 120.22-3 = 156.31; see ibid., 121.7-8 = 157.14-5.

  52. GA 9: 276.17-9 = 211.16-8: “nicht eine am Stoff vorhandene, seiende Eigenschaft.”

  53. SZ 212. 4-5 = 255.10-1.

  54. SZ 183.29-30 = 228.12-4.

  55. SZ 152.11-2 = 193.31-2.

  56. GA 73, 1: 337. Cf. GA 73, 2: 975.24: “Sein ist nie ohne Offenbarkeit von Seiendem zu Denken.”

  57. GA 65: 254.22-3 = 200.23-4: “Seyn… Da-sein.”

  58. SZ 212.13-4 = 255.19-20: “Abhängigkeit des Seins… von Seinsverständnis.”

  59. GA 66: 139.18 = 119.6: “Das Seyn is vom Menschen abhängig.”

  60. GA 66: 138. 32 = 118.24: “Das Seyn nur vom Da-sein.” Also GA 65: 263.28-9 = 207.29-30 and 264.1-2 = 207.33-4.

  61. SZ 5.13-7 = 25.19-27. Also GA 88: 12: 12.17-20; 20.12-5; and 23.25-6.

  62. Cf. GA 20: 423.8-11 = 306.33-5: “die Hinsicht; woraufhin es gesehen wird und gesehen werden soll.”

  63. GA 22: 7.14-5 = 5.36: “Es ist, es hat Sein” (Heidegger’s italics).

  64. At GA 22: 60.3 = 50.21-2 metaphysics’ Erfragtes is formally indicated as: “[Das,] was allein das Seiende selbst in seinem Sein zugänglich macht.” Cf. GA 73, 2: 997.2: “esse = quo est.” On ἰδέα as Seiendheit: GA 94: 424.6-7.

  65. Metaphysics IV 1, 1003a21-2 and 26-7.

  66. GA 14: 86.24-87.1 = 70.9-10: “Sein als Sein, d.h. die Frage, inwiefern es Anwesenheit als solche geben kann.” GA 15: 405.30 = 96.12: “Wo und wie west anwesen an?” GA 65: 78.22 = 62.30: “Die Grundfrage: wie west das Seyn?” GA 88: 9.7: “Wie west das Sein?”.

  67. GA 16: 66.15-6: “worin gründet die innere Möglichkeit und Notwendigkeit der Offenbarkeit des Seins.”

  68. SZ 9.7 = 29.13: “Sein ist jeweils das Sein des Seienden.”

  69. GA 14: 5.32-3 = 2.12-4.

  70. “Being itself” has this sense at, e.g., SZ 152.11 = 193.31: “nach ihm [= das Sein] selbst”; at GA 40: 183.22 = 186.17; etc.

  71. GA 73, 1: 108, my emphasis.

  72. GA 73, 1: 82.15-6: “das von woher und wodurch… das Sein west.” GA 94: 249.5 and .19: “[die] Wesung des Seins.”

  73. GA 73, 1: 585.27: “Ereignis führt sich uns zu, in dem es uns dem Da er-eignet.” Ibid., 585.19: “Er-eignet uns dem Da,” italicized.

  74. GA 12: 247.2-4 = 127.18-9.

  75. GA 14: 45.29-30 = 37.5-6. See GA 12: 249.30-1 = 129.38-40: “Dagegen läßt das Sein hinsichtlich seiner Wesensherkunft aus dem Ereignis denken.”

  76. GA 14:55.8 = 45.32: “Rückgang vom Anwesen zum Ereignen.”

  77. GA 15: 365.17-8 = 60.9-10: “ist sogar für den Namen Sein kein Raum mehr.”

  78. GA 40: 183.22 = 186.17.

  79. Carroll, Through the Looking-Glass, chapter 6, 72.

  80. GA 14: 81.13 = 65.30-1.

  81. GA 9: 131.21-2 = 103.33-5: “Verständnis des Seins (Seinsverfassung: Was- und Wie-sein) des Seienden.”

  82. E.g., GA 9: 326.15-6 = 248.37-7: “Die Lichtung des Seins, und nur sie, ist Welt.”

  83. GA 87: 99.27-9: Welt and its Welten are intrinsically hidden.

  84. SZ 34:1-4 = 57.25-8: “rekurriert,” where Heidegger follows Aquinas, Summa theologiae I, 58, 3, ad 1 and Summa contra gentes, I, 57, 2.

  85. GA 15: 380.6 = 68.43: “eine offene Weite zu durchgehen.” Cf. GA 14: 81.35 and 84.3-4 = 66.19 and 68.9; GA 7: 19.12 = 18.32.

  86. SZ 284.11-2 = 329.35-6.

  87. GA 71: 211.4 = 180.30. Heidegger (2011), 9.27-8: “’Da’ nicht demonstrativ (wie ‘dort’) ontisch, sondern: ekstatisch—dimensioniert.”

  88. Heidegger (1964) 182.27-184.3. See Heidegger (1987) 156.33-5 = 120.20-1.

  89. Heidegger (1987) 156.35-157.1 = 120.22-4. See GA 27: 136.13-5 and 137.7-8.

  90. GA 9: 325.20-1 = 248.11-2. See Heidegger (1987) 351.14-7 = 281.31-282.1; GA 14: 35.23 = 27.33; GA 49: 60.25-7; GA 66: 129.5 = 109.7-8; and GA 6:2: 323.13-5 = 218.3-5 (!).

  91. SZ 133.5 = 171.22.

  92. Heidegger (2011) 9.23. See also GA 3: 229.10-1 = 160.32; and GA 70: 125.12.

  93. GA 15: 380.11-2 = 69.4-5. Also SZ 147.2-3 = 187.13-4 and GA 66: 100.30 = 84.11.

  94. GA 69: 101.12: “Die Lichtung—sein—in sie als Offenes sich loswerfen = das Da-sein.”

  95. On ἀλήϑεια-1: GA 14: 82.9 = 66.26; 85.32-3 = 69.21-2. On ἀλήϑεια-1 and -2: GA 3: 13.15-7 = 8.40-9.1. On ἀλήϑεια-3: SZ 214.24-36 = 257.24-5.

  96. GA 9: 376.11 = 285.26-7, and 159 note a = 123 note a; GA 14: 36.11-2 = 28.20-1; GA 49: 57.2-3; GA 65: 74.10-1 = 59.20-3; and GA 74: 9.6.

  97. GA 66: 145.25 = 124.6. Cf. SZ 408.7 = 460.20-1.

  98. GA 74: 9.3.

  99. GA 11: 151.37-8 = xx.32-3. Cf. ibid., 151.21-2 = xx.25-7.

  100. GA 14: 90.1-2 = 73.1-2. Here Heidegger inverts “being and time” to “time and being,” the title projected for SZ I.3.

  101. GA 73, 1: 90.10-12 = 14.37-9. See GA 20: 442.12-4 = 320.3-5.

  102. GA 16: 708.9-11 = 45.16-8.

  103. Heidegger (1987) 274.1 = 218.15.

  104. GA 94: 281.27.

  105. “Pulled” or “drawn out”: GA 8: 11.6-11 = 9.13-17 and GA 6:2: 360.12-4 = 249.35-6. “Stretched”: SZ 390.37 = 442.33. See Enneads III.7.11.41: διάστασις ζωῆς, and Augustine, Confessions, XI 26.33: distentio animi.

  106. Zeitigung or Sich-zeitigung should never be translated as “temporalization” (which means nothing) but always in terms of unfolding or emergence. “Zeitigung als Sich-zeitigen ist Sich-entfalten, aufgehen und so erscheinen,” Heidegger (1987) 203.7-8 = 158.10-1.

  107. SZ 276.16-7 = 321.11 with SZ 133.5 = 171.22.

  108. GA 65: 34.9 = 29.7.

  109. GA 65: 239.5 = 188.25.

  110. GA 65: 304.8 = 240.16. See ibid., 252.23-5 = 199.3-4. Also GA 9: 377, note d = 286, note d: “Geworfenheit und Ereignis.”

  111. SZ 325.37 = 373.14-5.

  112. GA 65: 322.7-8 = 254.36-7. GA 94: 337.7-8: “ein Zurückwachsen in das Tragende der Geworfenheit.”

  113. GA 14: 25.33-26.1 = 20.29-33: Vorkommnis, Geschehnis.

  114. GA 11: 45.19-20 = 36.18-9. Geschehnis, Vorkommnis. The German text adds a note: [nor as] “eine Begebenheit,” an event.

  115. GA 12: 247.9-10 = 127.25-7: Vorkommnis, Geschehen.

  116. GA 73, 1: 820.11-4: “eh wir waren, schon bei uns gewesen.” GA 11: 20.23-7 = 73.10-5: “immer schon in einer solchen Entsprechen.” GA 13: 242.8-9: das Unzugangbare to which “wir Sterbliche/anfänglich ge-eignet sind.”

  117. See GA 26: 270.10 = 209.7: “Urfaktum.”

  118. GA 12: 249.5-6 = 129.13: “in sein Eigenes entläßt.” See ibid., 248.6-7 = 128.19-20; 248.15-6 = 128.29-129.1; and GA 14: 28.14-7 = 23.11-2.

  119. For προϋποκείμενον: Damascius, 1966, I, 312.21; (1986-91: III, 153.2).

  120. For Gegenschwung/oscillation and Ereignis (unfortunately translated as “event”) see GA 65: 251.24-5 = 198.14; 261.26 = 206.3; 262.7-8 = 206.15-6; 286.31-287.1 = 225.19-21; 351.22 = 277.39-40; and 381.26-7 = 301.29-30.

  121. Respectively GA 12: 118.21-3 = 32.13-4: “ganz anders hören,” and 119.8-10 = 32.26-8: “gebraucht, gehöre… in einen Brauch, der ihn beansprucht.”

  122. GA 73, 1: 790.5-8: “Der Bezug ist jedoch nicht zwischen das Seyn und den Menschen eingespannt…. Der Bezug ist das Seyn selbst, und das Menschenwesen ist der selbe Bezug.”

  123. SZ 53.12 = 78.22: “ein einheitliche Phänomen.”

  124. GA 65: 407.8 = 322.33.

  125. GA 65: 251.24-5 = 198.14: “Dieser Gegenschwung des Brauchens und Zugehörens macht das Seyn als Ereignis aus.” GA 94: 448.21-2: “Der andere Gott [= die Wahrheit des Seins: GA 65: 35.2 and 308.25] braucht uns”; and ibid., 449.10-4.

  126. GA 81: 209.8.

  127. GA 11: 150.19 = xviii.27. One of the clearest statements on this is GA 74: 8.5-28.

  128. GA 65: 407.8-11 = 322.33–4.

  129. GA 11: 149.29-150.1 = xviii.1-8, my emphasis in the ET.

  130. GA 12: 249.1-2 = 129.9. GA 94: 448.31: “das Er-eignis des Daseins, wodurch dieses dann geeignet wird.” Also GA 14: 28.18-9 = 23.15-7.

  131. GA 9: 442.21 = 334.21: “zu einem phantastischen Weltwesen hypostasieren.” Cf. GA 73, 2: 975.22-3: “als Etwas für sich Vorhandenes.”

  132. GA 9: 322.30-1 = 246.15-6.

  133. GA 10: 80.29-30 = 54.11-3.

  134. GA 65: 263.14 = 207.16.

  135. Passim. E.g., GA 66: 203. 10-1 = 178.28-9; GA 94: 428.8: etc.

  136. GA 12: 247.12-3 = 127.28-30.

  137. GA 22: 106. 32 = 87.32. See Enneads VI.9.11.2-3 and VI.7.40.51-2 (Henry-Schwyzer).

  138. By “explaining” I mean τὴν αἰτίαν γιγνώσκειν, “knowing the αἰτία of something”: Posterior Analytics I 2, 71b10-1. See “rerum cognoscere causas”: Virgil, Georgics II, 490, repeated in the tondo of Rafael’s “School of Athens.”

  139. Prior Analytics II 16, 64b28.

  140. GA 9: 244.32-3 = 187.28-9.

  141. GA 9: 197.26 = 151.9.

  142. GA 9: 195.23 = 149.28. Cf. GA 10: 126.27-9 = 85.17-8.

  143. GA 65: 293.9 = 231.8-9.

  144. GA 11: 151.21-2 and .27-8 = xxi.25-7 and 32-3. “Thrown-open domain”: Entwurfbereich. Cf. GA 9: 201.31 = 154.13.

  145. Re ill-named shorthand: Compare, for example, Heidegger’s condensation of “the question of the intelligibility of being” into “the question of being” in the titles to the first four sections of SZ. At SZ 26.38 = 49.17-18 he reduces “the question of the intelligibility of being” to the question “Was heißt ‘Sein’?” Note the ambivalence at ibid., 26.7-10 = 49.24-7.

  146. On the forgottenness of the essence of being: GA 79: 53.27-8 = 51.6-7: “Vergessenheit seines [= des Seins] Wesens.”

  147. GA 66: 200.32-4 = 176.35-7.

  148. GA 65: 246.17-9 = 194.11-2. See ibid., 293.16-7 = 231.15-6; and GA 10: 81.15-7 = 54.29-31.

  149. GA 62: 332.25-8 = 225.22-4. See ibid., 360.12-4 = 249.35-6.

  150. GA 8: 10.26-32 = 8:33-9.5, my emphasis.

  151. GA 65: 241.17-8 = 190.18-9. See GA 66: 200.31-4 = 176.34-7.

  152. GA 94: 5.17: “Der Mensch soll zu sich selbst kommen!” See ibid., 16.12-3.

  153. Literally: “Become essential!” GA 56/57: 5.34-5 = 5.14-5; Matthew 19:12.

  154. SZ 145.41 = 186.4. Pindar, Pythian Odes, II, 72 (Farnell, 1932), III, 56.

  155. GA 45: 214.15-8 = 181.5-8. See GA 94: 259.20-1: “Die Umwälzung zum Da-sein… mein einziger Wille.”

  156. Respectively Protagoras 343b3 and SZ 12.30-1 = 33.8-9.

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