abyss (Abgrund) 28, 78, 120, 127, 162–63, 169, 212
alētheia see truth
analogy 87
Andenken see recollection/remembrance
anticipatory resoluteness 66, 71, 104; see also resoluteness
Anwesen (presencing) 15, 134, 160, 214, 254 absencing and 117, 125; Anwesen-lassen (letting-come-about) 86; meaning-giving 100; meaningful presence 84
Anwesenheit (presence, coming to presence) 145, 159
Aristotle’s ousia 15; constant presence 7–9, 25
anxiety (Angst) 24, 41, 55–6, 64–6, 143
appearance 37–8, 46, 202–3, 211–12
appropriation see Ereignis
a priori 45, 48–50, 84–98, 100, 223
Arendt, H. 12–13, 161, 261, 263
Aristotle 2, 5, 7, 14–15, 20, 29–30, 34, 36, 38, 80–81, 84, 105, 117, 124, 126–7, 153, 163, 184–5, 223–4, 240, 260–61
art 128–39; see also poetry; poeēisis aesthetics 128–30; a circular movement of questioning 130; of a historical people 135–6; and technē 129, 185–8, 193–4 and truth 131–5; work of/artwork 1, 40, 131–4, 187–8, 212, 217, 253
artlessness (Kunstlösigkeit) 129
artwork see art, work of
assignment (Zueignung) 147, 153
assignment (Verweisung), assignment-context 50–51, 53, 209
astonishment see wonder
atheism see also God/gods
as the absence of the gods 250; atheism/atheistic piety of philosophy 223, 228, 232, 240; a-theological thinking of being 226; just as little atheistic as theistic 253; and the last god 246
Aufenthalt (sojourn, dwelling) 61, 112–14, 132; see also dwelling (Wohnen)
Augenblick (moment, brief epiphantic moment) 97, 105, 145, 150, 226
Augustine 12, 80–81, 220–21, 231, 238–9
authentic, authenticity
(Eigentlichkeit) 23, 30, 54–5, 57–67, 92–4, 97, 100; see also inauthenticity Ereignis 141–4, 146; Gelassenheit 168, 176–9; history 111, 220, 235; language 204; religion 220, 235, 237, 239, 243; temporality 71–4, 77, 79; Volk 104–6
awareness 45–6, 57, 65, 96, 165, 190, 192, 246; see also pre-theoretical
Beaufret, J. 263
Becker, O. 261
Becker-Modersohn, P. 138
beginning/inception (Anfang) 75–9; see also origin
art 130, 136; Beginn versus Anfang 76, 162 epochal 145; the first (der erste Anfang), Greek 7, 15, 34, 38, 40–41, 106–7, 111, 117, 119, 145, 149, 158–9, 164, 166–7, 173, 226; last god 226; myth of 41; the other/another (der andere Anfang) 41, 103, 105, 110–11, 117, 124–5, 144–5, 147, 150, 153, 158, 166, 226–7, 248; point for “transcendental” analysis 48; wonder/wonderment 106, 124
being (Sein) 5–10; see also beingness; beyng; beings; Ereignis
abandonment of/by 78, 144–7, 149, 168, 171–2; as such 5–6, 8, 12, 77, 142–3, 159, 162–3, 165, 167, 168, 245; of beings 6–7, 10, 38, 83–4, 119–24, 129, 159, 162, 164, 168, 170, 224; belonging see belonging, being; forgetting, forgetfulness/forgottenness/oblivion of 5–6, 93, 95–6, 120, 123–5, 144, 147, 158, 163–5, 183, 186, 228, 250; great chain of 6; history of 3, 8, 10, 13, 103, 112, 150–60, 163, 165–8, 170, 173, 227 (see also being-historical thinking); house of see language, as the house of being; itself 8, 74–5, 83–4, 156, 158–9, 162–3, 166–8, 178, 193, 198, 216, 220, 249–50, 253; meaning of 5, 7, 44, 58–9, 62, 66–7, 178, 184–5; question of 2, 5–10, 59–60, 62, 70, 130, 142, 144, 160, 170–71, 224–5, 231; qua being 5; refusal (Versagung, Verweigerung) 99, 144; relation with human being 8–10, 170 (see also being, requirement of human being; Dasein-Sein bond; reciprocity; turn, as the reciprocity between being and human being); requirement/need of human being 8, 82, 88, 93, 125, 178 (see also being, relation with human being); self-concealing of 120–21, 125, 158 (see also concealing/concealment; earth); thinking of 1–2, 4, 7–10, 180, 225–6, 228; and time 7–8, 69–81, 151, 156 (see also temporality; time); time as horizon for 70–71, 74–5 (see also horizon; horizonal schema); topology of 177; understanding of 7, 19–20 (pre-understanding, pre-predicative understanding), 44–6 (in Being and Time), 51, 53, 70, 75 (“from the understanding of being to the happening of being”), 76, 78, 80, 120, 126, 185–8, 222, 225–6, 228, 242; withdrawal of 147, 160, 163–5
being-here, being-there, being-t/here see Dasein
being-historical thinking (seinsgeschichtliches Denken) 8, 247; see also being, history of
being-in-the-world (In-der-Welt-Sein) 11, 19, 25, 44–56, 62–6, 71–2, 80, 86, 94, 126, 142, 202, 204, 209, 243, 253; see also Dasein; world
as being a priori in meaning 100; non-willing manner of 170; -with-others see being-with-others
being-toward-death see death, being-toward-death
being-with-others 18–20, 56, 63
beingness (Seiendheit) 84, 100 (as meaningfulness), 127; see also being
beings/entities (Seiendes, das Seiende) 5–11, 20, 36, 38–40, 44–50, 70–80, 83, 120–23, 186–8, 224, 241, and passim; see also being; ontological difference
artwork opens up a world of 132; as a whole 1, 125, 136, 224–5, 245; the first/highest (as God) 6, 224–5, 228, 230, 251; as the meaningful 85, 100; ontic 45, 60; self-presentation of 121; unhiddenness (truth) of 117–18, 124–6; “Why are there beings at all, and not rather nothing?” 6, 243–4; and world 202
belonging (to, together)
being/beyng 8, 11, 78, 88, 122, 125, 150–51, 176, 210, 246–7 (see also being, relation with human being; Dasein-Sein bond; reciprocity); end of philosophy and task of thinking 34; Ereignis 146, 150–51, 160, 246; fourfold 210, 214–15; history 136, 158, 164, 206; homeland 188; language 198, 201; open-region 176–7; scholasticism and mysticism 233; time and being 156; truth and untruth (concealment) 122, 144–5; work of art 131, 137; world (meaning) 9, 48–51, 88, 93, 202, 210; world and earth 133, 135
beyng/be-ing (Seyn) 6–7, 27, 76–8, 84–6, 94, 98, 111, 116–27, 142–50, 152–3, 170, 172, 177–8, 246–8; see also being; Ereignis
the a priori condition whereby things get their meanings 84; as Ereignis 6, 120; as event of inception 77; as an occurrence and not a representable entity 152
Blitz (brief epiphantic moment) 97
Braque, G. 138
Brentano, F. 260
Buchner, H. 263
Casey, E. 13
Cassirer, E. 262
categorial 21, 45–7, 49, 54, 56
Catholicism 3, 13, 127, 219–20, 228, 232–6, 240, 247, 257–8, 260–61
Cavell, S. 14
Celan, P. 264
Chillida, E. 138
Christian
experience 105, 221–3, 243, 255; philosophy 223, 232–3, 242–3
Christianity 17, 24, 80, 105, 219–23, 226, 232–4, 237–46, 249–51, 255–7, 261; see also Catholicism; Protestantism
primal 232
Christianness 241
circumspection 51
clearing (Lichtung) 1, 9, 20, 39–42, 51, 76–7, 84–6, 98, 100, 116–26, 133, 148, 166
cleavage 84
community 26, 107–8, 111, 211, 216, 235, 242
concealing/concealment see also play of revealing/unconcealment and concealing/concealment; truth, aleētheia
clearing 40, 77, 120; Dasein 46; double 134; earth 212; forgetting/oblivion 158, 250; god 229, 255; hint as a showing of 214; mystery 180; self-concealing of things/phenomena 37, 119; self-concealing/concealment of beyng/being 20, 117, 120–21, 125, 144–6, 158, 168, 172 (see also mystery)
concept(s)
being (mistaken) as an empty 145, 159; conceptual representation 200; destruction of venerable 24; Ereignis as the fundamental 140; formally indicative 23, 27, 29; grasping 11; Grundbegriffe (ground-/basic/fundamental concepts) 1, 10–12; ontological 47, 60; philosophical versus theological 222, 242–3; preconceptual understanding see understanding, preconceptual; scientific/objectifying versus philosophical/situational/formally indicative 23, 29–30; and state-of-mind 52; of time 71, 73–4, 78, 237; versus immediate experience 83
Construct see Ge-stell
correctness 116–19, 121–2, 124–6
correspondence (Entsprechung) see also truth, as correspondence (adaequatio, homoioōsis)
between Seinlassen and Gelassenheit 177–8; of human being to being 4, 12, 175, 177; to language 11, 178
Dahlstrom, D. O. 98
danger (Gefahr) 93, 95, 97, 105–6, 166, 193
Dasein/Da-sein (being-there/being-here) 1, 4, 12, 25–30, 36–7, 39, 44, 60, 83, 100, 142, 209, and passim
an entity amid entities, but with an understanding of being 75; being-in-the-world 19, 44–56; Dasein versus Da-sein 67, 152; disclosiveness/disclosedness 20, 36, 126; facticity see facticity; German 108, 113–14, 172; historicity of 7, 70, 136; man as sustaining/holding open the a priori process of meaning-giving 85; mortal, mortals 211; ontological dimension of human being 60; relation with being see being, relation with human being; Dasein-Sein bond; reciprocity; turn, as the reciprocity between being and human being; temporality of 8, 25–6, 62, 70–78; thrownness, thrown possibility 25, 71
Dasein-Sein bond 87; see also being, relation with human being; turn, as the reciprocity between being and human being
death 2, 30, 57, 62–3, 66, 71–3, 94, 99, 146, 171, 211, 227
being-toward-death 4, 56, 62, 66, 144, 211, 226; Dasein’s ownmost possibility 25; mortality 4, 62, 64, 66, 71, 94, 146, 170, 211, 226–7; mortals 11, 113, 148, 205, 208–11, 214, 216, 229, 255; mortal temporality 61; of God see God/gods, death of
decision
art 130, 132; authenticity 65; to ban Heidegger from teaching 263; daily 66; historical 205; human 199; to join the NSADP 103; to let transcendence happen 29; moment of 26–7, 30, 105, 221, 226 (see also Augenblick; kairos); regarding gods, the divine, or the last god 214, 226, 243, 245–6, 247, 250, 253; truth of being 130 by Volk 104–5; world-forming 171 (see also world-formation)
democracy 180
Derrida, J. 13, 102, 107, 114, 137–8, 180
Descartes, R. 8, 12, 17, 19, 28, 54, 113, 119, 185, 186, 190
destiny (Geschick) 58, 60, 62–3, 71, 75, 78, 81, 86, 90, 95–6, 100, 111–13, 155, 193–4, 229, 241, 249; see also being, history of
communal, versus individual fate (Schicksal) 27, 71, 112; Ereignis as without destiny 151; German destiny/fate 104–7; sending (Schickung) 84–6, 90, 150–51, 157, 162–7, 190, 251, 255
destruction/deconstruction/destructuring/dismantling (Destruktion, Abbau) 7, 11, 13, 80, 156–8, 163, 165
Dilthey, W. 17–18, 21, 26, 31, 70, 260
disclosedness/disclosiveness (Erschlossenheit) 39, 122, 126
“The human being is a creature of distance!” 69, 78; theoretical, objective 46, 185–6
divinity 2, 181, 231–2, 249–50, 253, 261; see also God/gods
Dreyfus, R. 13, 56, 81, 127, 194
dwelling (Wohnen) 51, 112–14, 132, 177, 202, 216; see also Aufenthalt
earth 108, 113–14, 127, 136, 150, 162, 165, 189, 205, 239; see also fourfold
humus 59; materiality in the work of art 132; as a member of the fourfold 212, 216–17; self-secluding nature of 133; technological mastery of 189; Tellus 57–8, 61; world and (strife of) 40, 76–7, 117, 127, 133–4, 147–8
Eckhart, M. 95, 169, 179, 181, 236, 253, 256
ecstatic-incorporation see will/willing, as ecstatic-incorporation
enframing see Ge-stell
enowning see Ereignis
epechein (to hold back) 172
epochs 3–4, 10, 13, 143, 144, 147–53, 163–4, 167–8, 170, 172, 253
equipment/gear/tool (Zeug) 49–50, 53, 131–2, 134, 170, 186–7
Ereignis (event/appropriating event/event of appropriation/appropriation/enowning/enowning event/enownment) 1, 6, 8, 11, 27–8, 78–9, 81, 98–100, 119, 122, 125–6, 140–64, 172, 226–7, 246
the appropriation of man to sustain meaning-giving 85–6, 91; belonging together of being and time 156; beyng 6, 120; and Enteignis (expropriation) see expropriation; Es gibt (there is, it gives) 86, 151, 178; and festival 111; full expanse of 146; and Gelassenheit 153, 177; Ge-stell as a preliminary form of 149–50; in Heidegger’s later thought 148–52; and history 112, 150–52, 155–6, 162–3; and language 153; and the last god 98, 147, 226–7, 232, 245–6; man-meaning bond 86, 88, 93, 95, 100; meaning-giving source 83, 86; and the middle-voice 178; mirror-play 148–9, 153, 215; that which gives both being and time 79; three ways of speaking of 145; the turning in 142–3
Erleben/Erlebnis (lived experience/adventure) 47, 83, 130–31, 135, 137, 141–2, 144, 146, 149, 152
Es gibt Sein (there is being, it gives being) 85, 90, 96, 100; see also Ereignis, Es gibt
essence (Wesen)
agriculture and gas chambers 109; art 129; being 76 (inception), 172 (will to power and letting-be), 245 (finitude), 249 (gods); concealment 214; Dasein’s essence is its Existenz 56; divine 145; essence and concept of physis 38–9; “essence” rather than “nature” 206; essencing 84, 100, 210–11, 216; essentia (whatness) 15; essential occurrence 245, 247; facticity 28; faith 241; fourfold 133, 135, 148, 215; ground 1; history 159, 167; human 36, 168, 175, 179, 198, 211, 249–50, 253; language 197, 199–201, 204–6; modernity 188, 192; nihilism 251; the occurrence of meaning-giving 100; phenomena 35, 38; phenomenology 34; philosophy 22, 233; poetry 135–6, 245; releasement 253; technology 1, 149, 191–3; things 202; thinking 176, 178; time 75; truth see truth, essence of; the university 105–8; Volk 111, 136; will 107, 174
ethical, ethics 13, 30, 67, 102, 113, 180
event/event of appropriation see Ereignis
existentialism 13
existentiell 3, 55, 94, 223, 242
experience (Erfahrung) see also Erleben/Erlebnis
of abandonment by/withdrawal of beyng 144, 145, 160; of art 129; the “as structure” of 10; of being/beyng/Ereignis 142–3, 145, 149, 156, 250, 253; categorial 45; Christian 105, 221–3, 243, 247, 255; factical life 2, 19, 221, 237–8; first-hand 83; Greek 15, 106, 112–13 (and German), 118–19, 124, 248–9; hermeneutical 42; history 167; the holy 227–8; Kant 52, 54, 75; with language 11, 196–8, 203; last god 226; life, lived 58, 83, 168, 239 (see also Erleben/Erlebnis); of mortality 4, 226–7; of mystery 96; mysticism 234; ontic 47; original/originary 19, 21, 24, 29; phenomenological 36–7, 41–2, 46, 49; religious 18, 169, 220, 234–7; temporal 80
expropriation (Enteignis) 79, 144, 146, 149, 151, 160, 165, 215; see also Ereignis
facticity (Faktizität 2, 14, 17–25, 27–8, 30–31, 52–3, 60, 69, 72, 74–5, 92, 94, 96, 221–2, 228, 238; see also historicity; thrownness
Dilthey 18; first thematized by Heidegger 21; Heidegger’s, as a Christian theologian 220–21, 239; hermeneutics of see hermeneutics, of facticity; term coined by Fichte 17
faith 15, 17, 219, 222–3, 231, 241–2
fall, falling, fallenness 22, 49, 70–72, 80, 95, 100, 144, 179, 239, 251
festival 111
Feuerbach, L. 17
Fichte, J. G. 17
finitude 25, 27, 52–6, 144, 190, 210, 213, 226, 245
formal indication 27–29, 98, 222, 237
Foucault, M. 13
fourfold (Geviert) 1, 11, 113, 119, 148–9, 153, 205, 208–12, 214–18, 228–9, 232, 255
freedom 17, 65–6, 107, 119–24, 193, 212, 244
letting beings (entities) be 121, 123, 171; openness 119; originally not connected with the will 171; pure willing 171; truth 92, 120–22
fundamental attunement/mood see Grundstimmung
gathering 150, 191, 208–10, 214–15, 227, 258
Gelassenheit (releasement) 1, 9, 79, 153, 168–81, 253, 263–4; see also non-willing
attentive waiting 177–8; (authentic) fundamental attunement 9, 168; correspondence with Seinlassen 177–8 (see also letting-be); “outside the distinction between passivity and activity” 178; semantic history of term 169; transition to 168, 175–7; toward things 179–80; toward other humans 180; turn from the will to 170, 175 (see also will/willing); two senses/moments of 176–7
Geschick see destiny
Geschick des Seins as givenness of meaning 90, 95–6; see also destiny
Gestalt (figure/configuration) 134, 183, 188–9
Ge-stell (enframing/Construct/framework) 1, 95, 100, 134, 146, 183–5, 188–93, 206, 216; see also technology
Gestellnis (form) 95; Jünger’s concept of
Gestalt 189; as preliminary form of Ereignis 149–50; root verb stellen 183; technological will 174, 191–2
God/gods 111, 114, 153, 196, 213–14, 217, 219–20, 224–6, 228–30, 231–59; see also atheism; divinity; Gottheit; the holy
absence of 250, 252, 254, 257; a becoming God 244; versus being 253 (see also God/gods, requires/needs beyng); Christian 226, 245, 249–50; colliding of god and human in the midpoint of beyng 246; crucified 241; death of 246, 250–52; divinities 213–14, 253 (see also fourfold); and Ereignis 148, 248; as an event of “passing by” 81; flight of 147, 230, 243, 245, 248; as formations of meaning 98; god of philosophy versus divine god 217, 225, 256; god of the poet versus the revealed God 255; goddess Aleētheia 250; Gottesfrage (question of God) 231; Greek 248–50; as the first/highest being 6, 224–5, 228, 230, 251; last god 98, 147, 226–7, 232, 245–6; “only a god can save us” 229, 257; ontotheology 228; requires/needs beyng 147, 153, 246–7; Saturn, god of time 58, 61; Will of 169, 181
Gottheit (godhead/godhood) 213–14, 225, 227–9, 232, 255
Greeks (ancient) 7, 15, 33, 78, 106, 110, 113, 118, 124–6, 129, 153, 160, 164, 194, 210, 217, 249, 254
ground (Grund) 1, 217, 226; see also abyss; concept(s), Grundbegriffe
timeless 79
Grundstimmung (fundamental attunement/fundamental mood/basic disposition) 9, 58, 124–5, 143–5, 168, 173–5, 180, 228
guilt see Schuld
Haar, M. 13
Habermas, J. 13
Hegel, G. W. F. 129, 138, 163–4, 223–4, 230
Heidegger, texts see also “ways, not works”
“The Age of the World Picture” 189, 190, 191; “Art and Space” 138; The Basic Problems of Phenomenology 30, 56, 74, 75, 81, 89, 204, 262, 264; Basic Writings 4, 5, 34–5, 39–40, 76, 118–20, 123, 126–36, 138, 144, 147–8, 152–3, 171, 183, 187, 193–5, 200–201, 203–4, 206, 217, 224, 262–4; Becoming Heidegger 7, 81, 233–5, 237, 240–42, 259, 260, 265; Being and Time 2, 4–12, 15, 22–3, 25, 28–31, 36–40, 44–6, 48–9, 51–67, 70–71, 74–5, 77–83, 88–94, 97, 99, 104, 119, 126–7, 130, 135, 140–44, 166–7, 170, 185–7, 195, 208–9, 211, 216–17, 226–7, 230, 242, 259, 262; “Building Dwelling Thinking” 148, 204, 211, 216–17, 230, 255, 263; Collected Edition (Gesamtausgabe) 4, 14, 81, 136–7, 140, 189, 194–5, 204–5, 250, 264; “The Concept of Time” 56, 70, 81; Contributions to Philosophy 7, 8, 27–840, 78–9, 82, 86–8, 93, 98–100, 103, 117, 119–20, 122, 125–7, 129–30, 135, 140–42, 144–50, 152–3, 166, 172, 192, 194, 217, 226–7, 230, 232, 247, 262; Country Path Conversations 5, 9, 168–9, 173–8, 194, 253, 263; “The Danger” (“Die Gefahr”) 96, 152, 263; “A Dialogue on Language between a Japanese and an Inquirer” 256, 263; Discourse on Thinking 9, 168–9, 174–9, 253, 263–4; The Doctrine of Categories and Meaning in Duns Scotus 234, 261; The Doctrine of Judgment in Psychologism 261; Elucidations of Hölderlin’s Poetry 76, 204–5, 210, 213, 217, 228–9, 245, 248, 252, 258–9, 263; “The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking” 34, 40, 264; “The Enframing” (“Das Gestell”) 152, 190–91, 263; “On the Essence of Ground” 126, 243; The Essence of Human Freedom 171, 181, 245; “The Essence of Language” 196–7, 201, 204; The Essence of Reasons 56; “The Essence of Truth” 91–3, 126–7, 144, 153, 262; The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics 11, 29–31, 37, 75, 224; History of the Concept of Time: Prolegomena 56; “Hölderlin and the Essence of Poetry” 76, 204, 245, 262; Hölderlin’s Hymn “The Ister” 111–12, 137–8, 204–6, 263; “The Idea of Philosophy and the Problem of World-views” (= 1919 War Emergency Semester lecture course) 21, 141, 152, 261; Identity and Difference 8, 79, 149, 150, 152, 217, 225, 230, 256, 264; “Insight Into That Which Is” 191, 208, 216, 263; “Introduction to ‘What is Metaphysics’” 224; Introduction to Metaphysics 6, 38, 40, 74, 109, 114, 128–9, 137, 166–7, 223, 244, 262; “Introduction to the Phenomenology of Religion” 221, 230, 238; Kant and the Problem of Metaphysics 56, 262; “Language” 195, 199, 202–4, 215–18; “Letter on Humanism” 10, 89, 93, 152, 195, 198, 202, 217, 230, 254–5, 263; Metaphysical Foundations of Logic 69, 74, 76, 78, 171; Mindfulness 130–31, 137–8, 248; Off the Beaten Track (Holzwege) 205, 212, 217, 262–3; “Only a God can Save Us” (the Spiegel interview) 178, 258, 264; Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity 24; “The Onto-theological Constitution of Metaphysics” 225; “The Origin of the Work of Art” 39, 76, 127–30, 137–8, 153, 187, 194–5, 203–4, 212, 262, 264; Parmenides 20, 39–40, 70, 112, 163, 250, 263; Pathmarks 4, 6, 8–10, 38, 56, 86–7, 90, 92–3, 96, 98–9, 113, 118, 121–3, 126–7, 171, 178–80, 189, 198, 202, 214, 216–17, 222–3, 225, 227, 230, 242–3, 254, 257, 262–4; Phenomenological Interpretations of Aristotle 21–4, 31, 240; “Phenomenological Interpretations with Respect to Aristotle” 24–5, 184, 221; “Phenomenology and Theology” 222, 230, 242; The Phenomenology of Religious Life 2, 808, 220–22, 230, 235–6, 238–9; “Philosophical Foundations of Medieval Mysticism” 221, 236; The Piety of Thinking 255, 259; “Plato’s Doctrine of Truth” 127; Poetry, Language, Thought 4, 11–12, 113, 136–7, 148–9, 174–5, 195–6, 210–17, 229–30, 254–5, 262–3; The Principle of Reason 40, 98, 133, 167, 178, 225–6, 263; “On the Question of Being” 189, 216, 263; “The Question Concerning Technology” 152, 183, 191–2, 206, 263; The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays 96, 99–100, 129, 149, 167, 172–3, 175, 189, 252, 263; Schelling’s Treatise on the Essence of Human Freedom 2, 172, 181, 224, 245, 262; “The Self-Assertion of the German University” (Rectorial Address) 103, 105–8, 111, 114, 171, 262; “The Thing” 148–9, 152, 216–18, 254, 263; “Time and Being” 79, 81, 83, 90–91, 144, 149–52, 155, 158, 163, 166; “The Turning” (“Die Kehre”) 94, 152, 263; On Time and Being 33–4, 41, 79, 81, 98, 144, 149–52, 155–60, 164–7, 217, 219, 264; Towards the Definition of Philosophy 11, 19, 21, 261; Über den Anfang 76, 152, 153; “The Way to Language” 153, 195, 200; On the Way to Language 10, 11, 79, 195, 198, 205–6, 214–15, 217, 256, 263–4; What Calls for Thinking? 4, 8, 11, 98, 160, 178, 263; “What is Metaphysics?” 224–5, 254, 262; “Why Poets?” 205; “The Word of Nietzsche: ‘God is Dead’” 252; Zollikon Seminars 74, 79, 81, 264
Heraclitus 9, 33, 97, 127, 213, 250, 263
hermeneutics, hermeneutical 2, 13, 17–31, 42, 157, 217
hermeneutics of facticity 1, 14, 19–20, 22; (counter-ruinant), 27–8, 70; hermeneutical mortality 94; hermeneutical phenomenology 11; man is by nature hermeneutical 88
Hisamatsu, S. 264
historicality/historicity (Geschichtlichkeit) 26–7, 31, 70, 166, 222, 143; see also history
of being 9, 143, 228 (see also being, history of); of Dasein 75, 80; and destiny 111–12; of the gods 228; “History hits us, and we are history itself ” 238; and political service 262; and religion 220, 228; shared temporality 8, 71; of the Volk 105
history (Geschichte) 31, 152, 162; see also being, history of; historicity; historiology
historiology (Historie) 161–2, 165–6, 243; see also history
Hitler, A. 3, 103–5, 110, 172, 262
Hölderlin, F. 76–7, 97, 103, 110–13, 128, 137, 146–7, 193, 204–6, 208–9, 217, 232, 243, 245, 248, 252, 255, 258–9, 262, 263
the holy (das Heilige) 214, 219, 227–30, 232, 235–6, 248, 252–3, 255, 258
homecoming 252
horizon
horizonal schema 74; of intelligibility/understanding 5, 7, 10, 166; and open-region 177; time/temporality as horizon for being 7–8, 70–71, 75, 143; transcendental 75, 89–91, 93, 142, 174; willing of 176
Hsiao, P. S. 263
Husserl, E. 8, 13, 20, 33–4, 3–8, 42, 54, 56, 80–81, 127, 221, 260–62
inauthenticity 22–3, 54–5, 59, 64, 67, 73; see also authenticity
indwelling (Inständigkeit) 177–8
interpretation 19, 24–9, 53, 112, 114, 116, 160, 227, 237, 254; see also hermeneutics
of being 7, 158, 165, 224; of being-in-theworld 46; of Christianity 222; of Greek thought 41, 108, 126, 165, 261; of Hölderlin 208; of life/self/Dasein/human being 21, 25, 44, 57–9, 70–72, 243; of Nietzsche 172; theological 242, 251; of truth as aleētheia 116–17, 124; of the work of art 133, 137
Irigaray, L. 217
Jemeinigkeit (in each case mineness) 31, 54
Jünger, E. 181, 188–9, 192, 194, 216, 263
kairos 23, 105, 221–2, 226; see also decision, moment of; Augenblick
Kant, I. 12, 17, 52, 54–6, 75, 138, 163, 171, 223, 262
Kästner, E. 263
Kehre see turn
Kisiel, T. 14–15, 233–4, 259, 265
Lacan, J. 13
Lacoue-Labarthe, P. 13, 102, 109, 114, 137, 138
language 10–12, 195–206; see also authentic, language; belonging, language; concepts; Ereignis, language; essence, language; experience, with language; metaphysics, language of; poetry
as the house of being 10, 198, 201–3; metalanguage 11, 199; poetic language 128, 136, 216; die Sprache spricht 178, 197
Leibniz, G. W. von 6, 163, 174, 249
letting-be (Seinlassen/Sein-lassen) 168, 170, 172, 177–9, 204
lived experience see Erleben/Erlebnis
Löwith, K. 13, 102, 220, 240, 261, 262
Luther, M. 231, 235, 240–41, 254
machination (Machenschaft) 112–13, 125, 129, 138, 144, 146, 149, 173, 246, 263
Marx, K. 163
meaningfulness 21–2, 84–6, 100, 186
Mehta, J. L. 14
Merleau-Ponty, M. 13
metaphysics 113, 129, 133, 138, 150, 181, 184–9, 217, 223–8, 236, 246
epochs of 149, 153; Greek substance 185–6; history of (Western) 6–7, 10, 15, 158, 163–6, 184; language of 90; and nihilism 251; of objective realism 83; as ontotheology see ontotheology; philosophy as 4, 40, 158–9; of (constant) presence 13, 25, 160; theology fell under the spell of 254; of will 173–4, 181
Miki, K. 261
mineness see Jemeinigkeit
Mitchell, A. J. 205
monotheism 226; see also God/gods
mortality see death, mortality
mortals see death, mortals
mortal temporality see death, mortal temporality
mystery 9, 20, 33, 92, 96–7, 111, 122–3, 180, 255; see also concealing/concealment
mysticism 231, 233–4, 236, 256
Nancy, J.-L. 13
National Socialism/Nazis 3, 103, 107, 109–11, 180, 191, 262
Nietzsche, F. 12, 103, 107, 128, 138, 163–4, 166–7, 172–3, 181, 188, 200, 250, 252, 259, 262
nihilism 107, 125, 137, 172–3, 175, 188, 216, 250, 251
non-willing 9, 168–70, 173, 175–80; see also Gelassenheit; will/willing
ambiguity of 176; beyond the domain of the will 176–8, 180; versus passivity 12, 169, 176, 178; transitional willing of 176
ones to come (Zukünftigen) 145
ontic 5, 14, 28, 30, 45, 47, 60–66, 76, 126, 162, 171, 227, 241–2
ontological difference 4, 6–7, 66, 91, 99, 142, 159–60, 220; see also being; beings/entities
ontology 5–6, 12–13, 44–7, 70, 76, 80, 185–7, 220–25, 241–2; see also being; metaphysics; ontotheology
“Dasein is ontically distinctive in that it is ontological” 45; fundamental 30, 46, 60, 105; metontology 28, 76; phenomenologization of 36, 38; regional 5
ontotheology 1, 6, 219, 223–5, 228, 230; see also metaphysics; ontology; theology
origin (Ursprung) see also beginning/inception
of time 76–7; of the work of art 130, 135
Patočka, J. 262
Paul 105, 221, 231, 237, 250, 254–5
people see Volk
Petzet, H. W. 102, 110, 114, 137–8, 216, 256–7, 259, 264–5
phenomenology 1, 11, 13, 19, 21, 33–6, 38–42, 46, 71, 79–80, 221, 232, 236, 261
anonymization of 33–6, 39; primal phenomenon (Urphänomen) 35, 40–42 universalization of 33–6, 41
philosophy
end of 34, 35, 41, 224; as “the immediately useless, though sovereign, knowledge of the essence of things” 5; as metaphysics 4, 158, 223, 225; as protreptic 29–30, 94; and science see science
physis 9, 10, 15, 36, 38, 39, 40, 124, 127
Picasso, P. 138
Plato 5, 12, 15, 105, 117, 119, 12–17, 223, 227
play of revealing/unconcealment and concealing/concealment 9, 39–40, 106, 108, 112–13, 119–20, 133–5, 138, 158, 172, 204; see also concealing/concealment; truth, aleētheia
versus the demand for “unbounded unconceal ment” 9, 177
poetry 1, 13, 135–7, 153, 195, 197, 204, 206, 232, 243, 245, 258, 262
Pöggeler, O. 13, 138, 152–3, 221, 230, 264
presence see Anwesenheit
presencing see Anwesen
presence-at-hand 49, 51, 53–4, 74, 80, 185–7, 208–9
preservers (Bewahrenden) 122, 125, 135
Presocratics 103, 108, 112–13, 127
pre-theoretical 19, 21, 24, 57, 141–2
primal matter (Ur-sache) 40
projection (Entwurf) 25–8, 37, 53, 71, 76, 88, 98, 122, 126, 137, 190
proteron tēi physei 84
Protestantism 13, 17, 231, 234–5, 247, 255, 257, 261
readiness-to-hand 11, 51, 53, 74, 170, 186–7, 209
reciprocity (Gegenschwung) 82, 87–8, 98, 100, 122, 125, 181; see being, relation with human being; Dasein-Sein bond; turn, as the reciprocity between being and human being
recollection/remembrance (Andenken) 80, 165, 177, 250
releasement see Gelassenheit
religion 220–21, 230, 234–5, 238, 256
to require/need (brauchen) see being, requirement/need of human being
resoluteness/resolute openness (Entschlossenheit, Ent-schlossenheit) 30, 55, 63, 66, 71–2, 79, 104–6, 135, 170, 172, 177–8; see also anticipatory resoluteness
restraint (Verhaltenheit) 125, 127, 144, 147, 172, 235
reversal (Wendung) 88–90, 93, 99, 100
Ricoeur, P. 13
rootedness (Bodenständigkeit) 108
Sallis, J. 13, 127, 153, 183, 194
Schelling, F. W. J. von 6, 172, 181, 224, 244–5, 262
Schleiermacher, F. 220, 235 Schmidt, D. 13
Schopenhauer, A. 181
Schuld (debt, guilt) 67
science 5, 50, 76, 105–8, 137, 191, 260
as the essence of the university 105; and German fate 107; philosophy as the science of being (ontology) 241–24242; philosophy (thinking) in contrast to 4–5, 29–30; pre-theoretical proto-science 19, 21; primal science of original experience 21; “Science does not think” 4; and technology 177, 186, 189; theology as a positive science 241–24242; theology should not be a science 257
seinsgeschichtlich as givenness of meaning 89–93, 95, 99; see also being-historical thinking
self, historically situated 19, 23, 25, 28, 161; see also Dasein
Seubold, G. 138
Sheehan, T. 181, 221, 233, 265
sheltering (Bergung) 106, 147–8
sicheinlassen (to engage in) 179
sky 11, 148, 150, 205, 208–9, 212–13, 216–17, 229, 255; see also fourfold
social constructivism 203
space/spatiality 51–2, 186 see also time-space; time, and space
Euclidean 51; hermeneutic 42; of intelligibility 9
standing-reserve (Bestand) 174–5, 180, 183, 192, 216
step back 4, 156, 164–5, 169, 178
Strauss, L. 261
strife 40, 117, 133–4, 136, 147–8, 249; see also earth, world and (strife of)
substance (ousia) 7, 10, 15, 84, 185; see also Anwesenheit; metaphysics, Greek substance
sustain (Offenhalten, zugehören) 88, 93, 98–100
Suzuki, D. T. 263
Taylor, C. 14
technē 124, 127, 129, 184–5, 187–88, 193–4; see also art, and technē; techno-think; technology
technology 1, 3, 12–13, 100, 109, 146, 149, 152–3, 164–7, 174–9, 183–94, 206, 216; see also Ge-stell; techno-think
temporal idealism 74
temporality 9, 15, 23, 25–9, 70–80, 105, 111, 222, 228, 238; see also Augenblick; historicity; kairos; time
“Christian religiosity lives temporality” 221, 237; ecstatic 76–7; finite 25; meaning of the being of Dasein 8; mortal 61–2, 65–6; originary/primordial 23, 26–9, 71–4; the Zeitlichkeit of Dasein and the Temporalität of being 74
Tezuka, T. 263
theology 3, 6, 17, 81, 219–20, 222–5, 228, 230, 232–43, 251, 254–7, 260–61; see also ontotheology; science, theology as a positive science; science, theology should not be a science
the open-region “bethings” things 177; relational 209; releasement toward 179; “the thing things” 210; and world 205–6, 208–10, 215–16
thrownness 11, 25–7, 52, 56, 59, 64, 71–3, 76, 82, 88, 92, 96, 98; see also facticity
time 28, 69–81 see also history; temporality; time-space
“Am I time?”, “I am my time”, “we are our time” 27, 74, 78; being and 7–8, 70–1, 79, 151, 156, 248; Care and the rule of 58; clock time 73; “Each Dasein is itself ‘time’” 70; ecstases of 74; ecstatic, meaningful 75–6; elimination of (Eckhart) 236; festal 111; finite 62, 73; of foundering 257; generation and “its [Dasein’s] time” 24, 26; historical 76 (see also historicity; history); Hölderlin’s determination of a new time 245; as the horizon for being see being, time as horizon for; as an image of eternity (Plotinus) 69; inception of time 75–8; interpretation of being in terms of 7 (see also being, time as horizon for); “it gives time” 151; and Kehre 92; linear/serial 74–5; natural 75–5; of need 245; originary 77; presence as one mode of 160; Saturn, the god of 57–8, 61; and space 78; true 160; untimely 145, 152
to ti ēn einai 84
tool see equipment
transcendence, decision to let happen 29
truth (Wahrheit) 1, 7, 13, 74, 77, 79, 109, 116–31, 134–53, 177, 184, 187–8, 193, 233, 243, 245, 257
as aleētheia (unconcealment, unhiddenness) 9, 15, 20, 34, 36, 92, 106, 112–13, 116–27, 249 (see also concealing/concealment; play of revealing/unconcealment and concealing/concealment); art as the “setting-itself-into-work of truth” 131; of being 84, 130, 170, 202–4, 206, 224, 226, 228, 248, 250, 253–4; of beyng 94, 117, 119–23, 125, 127, 143–50, 152–3, 246, 248; as correctness 116–19, 121–2, 124–6, 134; as correspondence (adaequatio, homoiōsis) 92, 106, 116, 118, 124, 126; essence of 93–4, 106, 112–13, 117, 122–4; as polemos/Aus-einander-setzung 106; as the process of meaning-giving 100; and untruth 9, 122–23, 144
Tsujimura, K. 264
different senses of 82, 100, 181; Heidegger’s “second turn” (from will to non-willing) 8–9, 168–73; in the history of being 112, 146, 168, 170, 173, 175; as the reciprocity between being and human being (Kehre 1) 87–9, 122, 142–3, 146, 152 (see also Dasein-Sein bond; reciprocity); as the shift in Heidegger’s thinking in the 1930s (Kehre-2) 89–93, 103, 140, 142; as the transformation of human being (Kehre-3) 94–5; turn-around of ontology into a metontology 28
unconcealment (Unverborgenheit) see truth, as aleētheia
understanding (Verstehen)
authentic 55; being see being, understanding of; categorial versus existential 47; intuitive 59; phenomenological 237; preconceptual 19; Schelling’s opposition of ground and 245; self-understanding 2 (of philosophy), 53, 65
untruth see truth, and untruth
Unheimlichkeit (homelessness/uncanniness) 64, 112–13
Vattimo, G. 13
Vereignung (appropriation/achieving appropriation) 148–9
Volk 31, 103–8, 111–13, 171–2, 180
Volpi, F. 13
voluntarism 9, 107, 169, 171–3; see also will/willing
Watsuji, T. 14
“ways, not works” 4
will/willing see also Gelassenheit; non-willing; will to power
being as will (to power) 10, 163, 168, 172–3, 181, 252; domain of 168, 175–6, 253; as ecstatic-incorporation/being-masterout-beyond-oneself 173; as evil 173; to foundation 42; as fundamental (dis-)attunement 168, 174; of God 169, 181, 253; Heidegger’s critique of 173–5; Heidegger’s embrace of 171; Heidegger’s turn from see turn, “second turn” from will to non-willing (Gelassenheit); pure 171; in the Rectorial Address and political speeches 107, 171–2; and technology 174–5, 191; transcendental/ontological 171, 174, 176–7; transition out of 175–7, 253; Umwillen (for the sake of) 170–71; will to will 171, 174
will to power 10, 107, 138, 163, 168, 172–4, 181, 188, 252, 262
wonder/astonishment (thaumazein) 66, 86, 106, 108, 124, 127, 145, 201
work see also “ways, not works”
of art see art, work of; of science versus philosophical thinking 4–5
world (Welt) 8–12, 21–6, 37, 40, 48–54, 58–9, 76, 82, 86, 88–96, 99–100, 180, 186, 201–2, 208, and passim; see also being-in-the-world; earth, world and (strife of); lifeworld; thing, world and; worldhood; world-formation
and art 131–2; Christian 222–3, 243, 247; environing/surrounding (Umwelt) 19–20, 48, 186; everyday 48–50, 64; fourfold 205, 208–218; historical 12, 28; modern world picture (Weltbild) 189–90; shared 21–2; suprasensory 250–51; technological 99, 177, 227, 229; “the world worlds” 98, 148
Young, J. 217