Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual

Volume 9, 2019

Contributors:

Richard Polt, Richard Capobianco, Ian Alexander Moore, Jennifer Gammage, Paul Gyllenhammer, Onur Karamercan, Khafiz Kerimov, Jussi Backman, Taylor Carman, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Graham Harman, Michael Marder, Casey Rentmeester, Pascal Massie, Benjamin Brewer, Jessica Elkayam, Daniel O. Dahlstrom

The Torso of Humanity: An Interpretation of Being and Time

Jeffrey Rubard

This book aims to be an accessible but serious 'general introduction' to Being and Time as a whole; the intended reader is a 'novice', for everyone newly confronted with Heidegger lacks much of the background necessary to 'put together' a full conception of what he is saying.

Existential Ontology and Thinging Modeling in Software Engineering

Sabah Al-Fedaghi

The resultant conceptual description is Dasein (human)-made theoretical constructs of a certain universe of activities. The construction explains a machine (the grand diagram), its slices and how its things behave, and their flows and submachines that are inside a definite enclosure or in the Heideggerian language a certain gathering.

William J. Richardson, S.J. and the Spelling of Marilyn Monroe: On Truth, Science, and the ‘Unfolding of Man’ in Heidegger and Lacan

Babette Babich

[Heidegger at Zollikon] goes on to discuss the way science works, all of which he also and already has laid out in Being and Time, but which he here states more plainly and we could call this the articulation par excellence, and pace Richardson, of a Heideggerian philosophy of science which also happens to look a great deal like other philosophies of science

Some natural history of sense-making [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

Heidegger is adamantly ‘essentialist’ on this point. Whatever it was or is – Einbruch, Ereignis, or whatnot – every natural process of differentiation is excluded; in addressing the human difference naturalism is the error of biologism

The Ontological Foundations of Digital Art [PDF]

Róisín Lally

Heidegger is setting up a distinction between two types of technē. The first is a lower form of technē, which is unable to overcome Vorhandenheit (or presence-at-hand). ... The second is “great technē,” which sets-into-work being itself as unconcealment.

Thing-ing educational practice: Positioning Enframing in Heidegger's Bremen Lectures [PDF]

Matthew Kruger-Ross

The positioning of education, the thing-ing, was rampant in Heidegger’s time as it is today and it may be for this reason that Heidegger leaves those who follow his thought with much to ponder.

Lectures and Essays (GA 7)

Martin Heidegger

Introduction to Time and Trauma: Thinking Through Heidegger in the Thirties [PDF]

Richard Polt

The challenge is not just to interpret Heidegger, but to think and act today.

Heidegger, Neurosciences and the Exemption from the Descartes’ Error [PDF]

Alkis Gounaris

The Heideggerian notion of “In the World Being”, could provide, in the right context, an idle fire escape for some burning questions of the Neurosciences.

Heidegger, Will to Power and Gestell [PDF]

Joshua Soffer

Even if one claims the event of transformation as a complex unity of same-difference; Ereignis functions as 'more than' structure, it is the happening of what happens to a being.

Heidegger: The Three Meanings of ἀλήθεια

Thomas Sheehan

Heidegger always preserves the phenomenological correlation between whatever is open/intelligible and the apprehending of what is open/intelligible. So, on the one hand, the kind of disclosedness of things is their meaningful (not just their sensible) disclosedness, and this occurs not off by itself in some pre- or extra-human scenario but only in and with the human apprehension of those things

What Is Metaphysics? Original Version [PDF]

Martin Heidegger

Translated by Ian Alexander Moore and Gregory Fried

Philosophy is the getting-going of the going out, over, and beyond the whole of beings that lies at the basis of Dasein.

Angst and the thick sublime [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

So the existential constitution of the ‘Da’ — the phenomenon of Entdecktheit, ‘discoveredness’ — has two principal components (if that phrase be permitted) — Befindlichkeit (‘disposedness,’ ‘state-of-mind’) and Verstehen (‘understanding’); roughly, the basis of affectivity and the basis of cognition. These two existentials are equiprimordial and co-occurrent: state-of-mind is never without understanding and understanding always has its mood.

When Silence Strikes: Derrida, Heidegger, Mallarmé [PDF]

Rodrigo Therezo

[T]he blank spaces introduced between the letters of ‘E i n’ enable us to resist Heidegger’s powerful reading that claims the supposed unicity of ‘E i n Geschlecht’ as the necessary condition for ‘saving the earth’ from a ‘degenerate’ Geschlecht that will not survive the internal diremption between Geschlechter.

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Heidegger, Heterotopic Dwelling and Prehistoric Art: An Initial Indication of a Field of Research

Philip Tonner

According to Carpenter, the Inuit’s conception of space and time is a unity (this is reflected in the Inuit word tima, which means, “here-now” and of each situation as a ‘dynamic process’. This resonates with Heidegger’s view that space and time form a unity that is delivered over to historical agents by way of the giving characteristic of appropriation (Ereignis).

Putting Heidegger's Black Notebooks in the Gray Zone: Intervention and Complicity [PDF]

Julia A. Ireland

Heidegger's review of his time as rector takes neither the form of an apology nor a straightforward defense but was written as an indictment within a conspiracy theory that he can finally only explain in spiritual terms.

Einsicht, Seinsicht, Nichtsicht [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

Just as Schreber in his madness always insisted he did not choose to become God’s woman – it wasn’t his idea – so Heidegger’s recurring expression ‘it is not we who . . .’ characterizes our openness as in some sense the ‘obediential potency’ of sense-making, the passive middle point of meaning: “We never come to thoughts. They come to us.”

Technology, Ontotheology, Education [PDF]

Iain Thomson

A failure to appreciate this very basic hermeneutic point—that, for Heidegger, ontotheology explains technological nihilism—continues to undermine sympathetic as well as critical treatments of Heidegger's views on technology

The Apostrophe of Difference:
The Supplement of the Copula in Western Metaphysics [PDF]

Eric D. Meyer

I will speak, therefore, of a word. Of the simplest of words, and the most significant. ... I will speak of the simple word ‘is.’ Which, in two brief letters, carries the whole burden of the ‘meaning’ or ‘sense’ of B/being in the Western metaphysical languages. But which scarcely exists, and is often not spoken or written except as the meaningless sibilant: ’s.

Heidegger and the Gottesfrage [PDF]

Bret W. Davis

Heidegger’s god is not a god that we need, a god that we call on to answer our questions, so much as it is a god who needs us, a god who calls on us to play our part in the grounding of a meaningful world.

Polytroposein – Heidegger’s qualified diversitarianism [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

The faculty for shifting paradigms and the faculty for modifying self-interpretation are the same – insight. Heidegger repeatedly insists on the primacy of insight; in the first instance for the necessary changeover from the ‘natural attitude’ to phenomenology

The Question Concerning Comics as Technology: Gestell and Grid

Ernesto Priego and Peter Wilkins

We contend that the comic is an articulation of technological and aesthetic revealing: the intersection of the totalising ‘danger’ of technology and the ‘saving power’ of art.

The Phenomenological Movement in Context of the Philosophy of Film and Motion Pictures [PDF]

Shawn Loht

What Heidegger’s concept of Dasein’s helps to illuminate is the projective character of the viewer. In Heideggerian terms, it is the viewer, by virtue of Dasein’s de-distancing, projective character who traverses the “distance” to what is depicted on screen.

A response to Sheehan's attempted paradigm shift in Heidegger studies [PDF]

Ingo Farin

Sheehan is not content with the mere rebuttal of the mistaken hypostatization of being or the firm establishment of the alternative thesis of the foundational correlativity of man and being. In fact, Sheehan argues for a much more radical and, it must be said, much more contestable position, namely that, contrary to the received view, being as such is not really Heidegger’s main topic at all.

A thematic pair in Trawny’s Freedom to Fail [PDF]

Fundamental to Being and Time is the manifestation of this thematic pair in Dasein: das Man as the exploitative pole, the anticipatorily resolute self as the exploratory. Which brings us back to the contrast of principled with an-archic freedom.

Doug C. Wise

Martin Heidegger and Günther Anders on Technology: On Ray Kurzweil, Fritz Lang, and Transhumanism

Babette Babich

It is because of the inherently intentional dimensionality of consciousness that we are able to become our machines, that we can become, as a military unit does, to use a familiar and very military metaphor, like a well-oiled machine because we project ourselves into our machines: our machines, our selves. Thus Heidegger focuses on Machenschaft, mechanization, a can-do-ability along with gigantization in his Contributions to Philosophy, including his reflections on the last god, including his fugues, all very much in the sense that Ernst Jünger would speak of Titan-Technik, that is to say, literally titanic technology.

The destiny of freedom: in Heidegger [PDF]

Hans Ruin

If freedom is understood as a foundation, if yet in its abysmal character, then we recognize a repetition of the aspirations of German idealism, to create a system of freedom, where freedom functions as a first principle. But Heidegger’s aspiration already at this point should be read as directed elsewhere, toward freedom as the opening toward that which is,

On the genealogy of switcherooity [PDF]

Movies themselves play a part in the drama of human self-revelation in that their making exhibits the florid exuberance of the as-structure. The phenomenon of the ‘as,’ Heidegger says, is “the structure that belongs to understanding as such.”

Daseintropy [PDF]

Dasein’s characteristic niche-making forms a colossal heat engine; in its engagement with nature the peculiar process of ‘projection,’ ‘taking-as,’ entwurfen etwas auf/als etwas, which we essentially are, produces entropy. Ereignis then designates the biosphere’s discontinuous transition (Einbruch) to this new kinetic regime of self-structured disordering.

Doug C. Wise

Heidegger and the Problem of World

William J. Richardson

If we are to get some appreciation of how Heidegger, or a Heideggerian, would look upon Marilyn Monroe's experience of the "world," we must begin by asking how the notion of world became problematic for Heidegger in the first place.

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual

Volumes 7 and 8, 2017-18

Contributors:

Richard Polt, Thomas Sheehan, Lawrence J. Hatab, Dimitri Ginev, Ian Moore, Daniel O. Dahlstrom, Katherine Davies, Emily Gillcrist, Rodrigo Therezo, Peter Trawny, John Sallis, Peter Hanly, Daniela Vallega-Neu, Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback, Scott M. Campbell, Jessica S. Elkayam, Rebecca A. Longtin, Julia A. Ireland, Robert Bernasconi, Wayne Froman

Call for Papers

Alexander Dugin’s Heideggerianism [PDF]

Michael Millerman

Heidegger is truly a “sine qua non,” or pillar then: without him, the structure of the fourth political theory collapses. Although Dugin has written books on each aspect of the structure (geopolitics, ethnosociology, theology, Heidegger), all of which are also well represented in the online universe of the fourth political theory, by his own account the Heideggerian core is most important.

Eidetic Eros and the Liquidation of the Real [PDF]

Richard Polt

Heidegger’s attitude is stratospheric; he is ready to dismiss all the variety of technological relationships as inessential in comparison to the supposed essence of the phenomenon.

Redescribing the Zuhanden-Vorhanden Relation [PDF]

Lawrence J. Hatab

The zuhanden-vorhanden dynamic can be read as simply the gateway for overcoming presentism and objectivism, as a starting-point that counter-poses practical usage to theoretical examination, wherein usage opens up different and more original philosophical concepts.

Aboriginal Ge-Stell [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

Although the early state did not invent slavery it did invent, in response to the demands of administration, a new technology: literacy; a technology which more than any other instantiates positionality.

Communication of Silence at Martin Heidegger: Sygetics – Logics of Thinking Silence [PDF]

Ștefan Vlăduțescu

The logic of the thought which reasons the truth of the being is the logic of silence, that is, sygetics. It is not merely an isolated logic of silence. Sygetics points to the essence of language.

Being on TV: Heidegger, Wisser, and Adorno’s Ghost [PDF]

Heidegger and Hölderlin on Aether and Life [PDF]

Babette Babich

For Heidegger, beyond the conviction that we can get technology in hand, coupled with our ever greater confidence in techno-neutrality, a conviction, he tells us already in his first essay on technology, "delivers us over to it in the worse possible way."

Existential Medicine-Heidegger and the Lessons from Zollikon [DOCX]

Kevin Aho

For Heidegger, doctors who "think" are more than technicians. They question the assumptions of the natural sciences, make a concerted effort to situate the sufferer within his or her life-world, and attend to their unique experiences and self-interpretations.

How Meaning Moves: The Self-Concealing of Being [PPT]

Katherine Withy

The self-concealing of being = its inability to make sense of its own ground in the clearing
Based on a feature of conditions of possibility
Heidegger claims that we can’t understand this feature. (Why?)

Heidegger Circle 2018

Conference Program

Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland

May 4-6, 2018

The Presence of Art and the Absence of Heidegger

Ronald Beiner

Despite Arendt’s avowing to Heidegger that The Human Condition “owes practically everything to you in every respect,” one thing it clearly didn’t owe to Heidegger, thankfully, was any sense that modernity, for all its discontents and frustrations, is utterly irredeemable. For Heidegger, the work of art redeems us insofar as it helps to conduct us back to a radically pre-modern world where Being still speaks to us through the medium of “things” in their “thinghood” or “thingliness,” as it were. A rustic jug or a peasant’s pair of work-boots are authentic “things” whereas most of what we handle as benighted moderns is corrupted by modernity’s alienation from Being.

Irruption and Annihilation [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

After its fashion the Shimmer-generator is casting-forth a world by its rapid recombination of DNA resulting in an ecosystem quite alien to the native. With or without intentionality the Shimmer-generator is projecting a new world. The Shimmer-generator thus has broken through our ambit of sense, Umkreis, and irrupted into being-in-the-world; imposing its own radically other ‘sense.’

The “Turn” Away from the Transcendental-Phenomenological Positioning of Being and Time to the Thinking of Being as Physis and Aletheia [PDF]

Richard Capobianco

The radicality of Heidegger’s later position on Being as physis as aletheia lies, then, in this: Being is not strictly speaking dependent upon the human being as the site or dative, the “to-whom,” of Being’s unending temporal emergence and unconcealedness.

Heidegger and the Right Heideggerians
Phenomenology vs. crypto-metaphysics [PDF]

Thomas Sheehan

The Right Heideggerians claim Ereignis is “just another name” for “Being,” but they are unable to explain what Ereignis means and why it has to be the thing itself. Instead they keep repeating their now expanded mantra, ̓Αλήθεια = Φύσις = “Being” = die Sache selbst = Ereignis! Contrary to the Latin maxim rem tene, verba sequentur, they cling to these sacrosanct terms as precious gifts from the Master Himself.

Fragmentation into Various Ways of Being [PDF]

A Departure from Analogy into the Splintered and Fragmented 'Ways of Being' [PDF]

How Simultaneous Multiple Independent Times Impact Our 'Ways of Being' [PDF]

Kent Palmer

Responding to Kris McDaniel's The Fragmentation of Being

Heidegger and the ‘There Is’ of Being [PDF]

Kris McDaniel

When we say that ‘being is’, we use a sense of ‘being’ that ‘posits nothing in reality’ and hence our sentence is consistent with our flatfooted denial that Being and its modes are genuine entities. And finally, we can see how Heidegger could think that being depends on Dasein even though there are many entities that do not depend on Dasein.

The God of Ge­‐Stell in the legislative-­‐prayer cases [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

The ceremonial purpose of legislative prayer is to commandeer the divine and position it in the regime of orderable resource as backing, ground, warrant, legitimation for lawmaker's actions.

Heidegger’s Error: Philosophy without Sophia [PDF]

Kent Palmer

Basically what Heidegger does not understand is that there are things about ourselves that were always true that we only later discover about ourselves, and that is wisdom to understand the self in such depth as to realize what it actually is like behind the semblances. Heidegger’s Dasein cannot discover what it always was and always will be, its Arche: origin and end as the same.

Heidegger, Luther, and Aristotle: A Theological Deconstruction of Metaphysics [PDF]

Vishwa Adluri

Heidegger’s ambiguous relation to Aristotle as well as his turn to facticity in the 1920s must be understood out of this two-fold project, namely, the desire to exclude the thought of circular time and the desire to retrieve an understanding of human existence as radically jeweilig and finite and thus in need of salvation.

Science as Social Existence: Heidegger and the Sociology of Scientific Knowledge [PDF]

Jeff Kochan

In response to external-world scepticism, Heidegger launched a phenomenological inquiry into the basic ways in which a cognising subject experiences its relation to the world. He conceptualised this experience in existential terms as an experience of ‘being-in-the-world.’ On Heidegger’s account, the most basic form of being-in-the-world is an experience of immersed involvement in a world of work. The epistemological problem of how the subject gains access to an external world is neutralised once one recognises that subject and world were never separated in the first place.

Animal Dasein: the genesis of existentials in the early Heidegger's interpretations of Aristotle [PDF]

Christiane Bailey

If Heidegger will eventually claim that animals have no world, not even an Umwelt, his earlier lecture courses show that this constitutes a reversal in his way of thinking.

Being Itself and the Being of Beings: Reading Aristotle’s Critique of Parmenides (Physics 1.3) after Metaphysics [PDF]

Jussi Backman

What is inaccessible to thinking must therefore be absolutely excluded from the sphere of intelligibility. It follows that being/intelligibility as such must be completely and perfectly self-identical, self-sufficient, and unitary, safeguarded from any interaction with and from any reference to a nonintelligible outside or other of intelligible being-there. This is the core insight of Parmenides’ way of ἀλήθεια, of intelligible evidence, which is also the way of ἔστιν—understood in the subjectless and absolute sense of “there is.”

Heidegger and Aristotle

Franco Volpi

Translated by Pete Ferreira

Heidegger's thought represents a dense stitching of Aristotle's presence in our century. It does not give us a simple interpretation of Aristotle, but enacts a radical attempt at renewal with an invigorating understanding of the fundamental problems which for the first time are grasped in Aristotle's text and shown to Western thought.

Opened Grounds: Studies on Foundation and Truth in Phenomenology [PDF]

Tobias Keiling

The continuity of the color spectrum, becoming present in the artwork, interrupts any conceptual classification of the leaves—in, say, a yellow, maybe an orange, and a green kind. The peculiar arrangement of the leaves, their sculpting or setting-up as a work, highlights these colors, makes them “glow,” Heidegger would have said, but it does not reveal any organization according to genus and species nor even a countable number of instances of the same kind.

Why did Heidegger abandon the transcendentalism of Being and Time? [PDF]

Thomas Sheehan

The question then becomes: What is this Open or clearing itself, if we disregard the fact that “the side turned towards us” can also appear as the horizon of our presentational thinking? How is the clearing itself opened up?

Thinking love: Heidegger and Arendt [PDF]

Iain Thomson

There was nothing ‘‘open’’ about Heidegger’s passionate relationshipwith Arendt, and precious little in the long succession of affairs that followed.Instead, the fact that Heidegger was (rather nobly) raising as his own son a boy(Hermann) whom Elfride had conceived in an earlier love affair of her own seems tohave given Heidegger something of a lifelong ‘‘Get out of jail free’’ card (or, moreaccurately, a ‘‘Get out of Jail without a divorce’’ card), and one he played with afrequency that tormented Elfride.

East-West Dialogue after Heidegger [PDF]

Bret W. Davis

Heidegger’s entire path of thinking can be understood—as he himself suggests on more than one occasion—as preparing the way for what he calls “the inevitable dialogue with the East Asian World”. And so, while many readers of Heidegger may be satisfied to focus on this or that text or period, this or that issue or step on his path, those who pursue the entire trajectory of his thinking will eventually find themselves faced with the inevitability of this dialogue.

Aftermath [PDF]

Babette Babich

Heidegger is hardly alone in being subject to this, if his circumstances do outclass other scholarly scandals. Philosophy is thus just what every textbook about philosophy suggests: a list of names for popular consumption. The great philosopher is identifiable by a Google or Twitter ranking. Maybe just, more soberly, by citation frequency.

In Search of Allies for Postnatural Environmentalism, or Revisiting an Ecophilosophical Reading of Heidegger [PDF]

Magdalena Holy-Luczaj

Heidegger's world seems then to be a structure in which the emergent being of artifacts/beings manifests when they are seen in relation to various activities. This requires the recognition of mutual belonging between all things, which is the condition for the possibility of unfolding their proper identity. That is to say, the Heideggerian concept of the world assumes that only together can beings disclose being.

Forthcoming in Environmental Values.

Call for papers

Heidegger Circle Meeting 2018

Goucher College, Baltimore, Maryland, May 4-6, 2018

Overview of the Core of the Western Worldview starting from Cassirer and Heidegger Complementarity [PDF]

Cassirer and Heidegger: Complementarity [PDF]

Dasein and Special Systems Theory in Heidegger’s Being and Time [PDF]

Heidegger’s Being and Time as an Emergent Event [PDF]

Cassirer, Heidegger, Schemas Theory: A Rapprochement [PDF]

Kent Palmer

Heidegger never got beyond facticity [PDF]

Thomas Sheehan

Therefore, we can correctly say – where “correctly” means “in accordance with the intention of all his work” – that Heidegger’s efforts as a whole were directed towards knowing and embracing the facticity that we essentially are. To state those moments in classical Greek terms: first, “γνῶθι σεαυτόν” and then “γένοι’ οἷος ἐσσι μαθών”

Dinosein [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

The setting of Being into what appears as beings (in das Erscheinende als das Seiende) is the operation of the as-structure; taking-as is the technology of Dasein’s world-forming. The hand, says Aristotle, is the tool of tools. Taking-as, for Heidegger, is the technē of technai. (But not, he will insist, the essence of technology; technē remains ‘technological.’)

Interview with Prof. Richard Capobianco [PDF]

Vladimír Leško

Being is the pure emerging of all that emerges (physis). Being is the pure manifesting of all that is manifest (aletheia). Being is the pure laying-out and gathering of all that is (the primordial Logos). This understanding of Being, although already in evidence in the early work, came into fullest view in his “later” writings and reflections.

Heidegger’s Ereignis and Wittgenstein on the Genesis of Language [PDF]

Richard McDonough

If Wittgenstein were permitted just one critique of Heidegger’s account of the Ereignis, it would likely be that Heidegger too has been seduced by language. For even though Heidegger acknowledges the limits of language, he continues to violate those limits because “[I]n so far as people think they can see the limits of human understanding, they believe of course that they can see beyond these”. Specifically, Wittgenstein might well say that Heidegger description of the opening of an Open, a “world” in which beings can be present, is simply a mythological way of referring to the “world” of meaning.

Thinking the Earth: Critical Reflections on Quentin Meillassoux’s and Heidegger’s Concept of the Earth [PDF]

Vincent Blok

Heidegger's concept of the Earth and world can be seen as a new conceptualization of matter and form, in which the original power of the definition of the terms matter and form is rehabilitated from the perspective of the world of practice we are always already intentionally involved in.

"Massive Voluntarism” or Heidegger’s Confrontation with the Will [PDF]

Being-in-the-World as Being-in-Nature: An ecological Perspective on Being and Time [PDF]

and

Saving Earth: Encountering Heidegger's Philosophy of Technology in the Anthropocene [PDF]

with

Jochem Zwier

Forthcoming in Techné.

Heidegger, Freud, and the other clearing [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

So Freud’s conception of a topographical separation suggests the image of the clearing and the unconscious as each the attractor fundamental to its respective realm. Or, echoing Boss now, that each is a focus, like the mutualistic pair in the Lorenz ‘butterfly,’ of the single chaotic attractor that is human sense-making. The Freudian unconscious is then the co-ordinate second situs of ontology, the other clearing.

Sein und Zeit, part one, division three
The contents as projected in 1927 [PDF]

Thomas Sheehan

“Meaningful presence from out of this origin” (which Heidegger elsewhere calls “being with regard to its essential origin”) refers to the core element of Heidegger’s phenomenology: the search for “the thing itself,” that is, the origin of meaningfulness. The phrase implicitly affirms that the thrown-open clearing is the fundamental presupposition and groundless ground of our need and ability to make sense of everything we encounter.

Attention as the Way to Being [PDF]

Larry Berger

We can understand Being in this context as the self-withdrawing basis for the presencing, gathering, and ordering of beings, which must be heeded. What is key is that for Heidegger, we can participate more or less fully in this gathering; for it is not a collection of objects, or a highest genus, but rather essentially involves effort and force, which is characterized in terms of a standing and holding that holds beings in readiness, a stillness in which things are held in a tension.

On the Difference Between Being and Object [PDF]

James Osborn

[O]bject-oriented ontology establishes the domain of philosophy as a province of indifference, and anywhere that Heidegger would broach the subject of Dasein’s care or responsibility, any sign of a relation between the philosopher and the object of philosophy, Harman must convert such traces of philosophical praxis into an ontological logic to which Dasein has no significant relation. Object-oriented ontology thus entails the duplicitous thesis that the philosopher is indifferent to the object of philosophy.

Two recent papers from

Richard Capobianco

Heidegger on Hebel: The Inexhaustible Depth of “Things” [PDF]

[T]here is a depth to every “thing” that cannot be exhausted by the word, even the poet’s word. Every being is always more than what we can say or think about it; every being is always more—it exceeds or overflows—sense or meaning.

and

Heidegger on Heraclitus: Kosmos/World as Being Itself [PDF]

[T]he essential unfolding of kosmos/world/Being is structurally and temporally prior to the gods and human beings and in no way dependent on them.

Heidegger and Darwin: the as-­‐structure and variability per se [PDF]

Doug C. Wise

The Alltäglichkeit in Being and Time and its outriders is the proto‐version of the Ge-­stell in Heidegger's post­‐war corpus. The everyday comportment of Dasein scaled up to higher levels of organization shows up in the later work as positionality, das Ge-­‐stell, "the essence of technology."

Review of Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy by Peter Trawny [PDF]

from International Journal of Philosophical Studies (25.2)

Eric D. Meyer

If Heidegger’s ‘Nazi anti-Semitism’ was neither ‘Nazi’, in the orthodox sense, nor ‘anti-Semitic’, in the biological-racist sense, as Trawny establishes, is it then correct to stigmatize his thought as ‘Nazi’ and/or ‘anti-Semitic’? But if Heidegger was, in some sense, a ‘Nazi anti-Semite’, as Trawny’s argument also suggests, is it acceptable to excuse his flagrant errors and egregious denials, as Trawny does, as simply examples of an ‘an-archistic’ freedom of thought?

What Is Called Drinking? Heidegger, Wine, and Loss [PDF]

Andrew J. Mitchell

Heidegger thus sees in Dionysus a blending of opposites as well, a coexistence of contradiction, even that between presence and absence. For this reason, he is the god of neither presence nor absence, Dionysus is the god of the trace, of that which lies “between” presence and absence.

Origin(s) in (of) Heidegger/Derrida [PDF]

Edward S. Casey

[I]t is Heidegger's allegiance to reunification-within-the-origin which is most distressful-and most demanding of deconstruction. The same allegiance is revealed in the continual Heideggerian recourse to words prefixed by 'ge-', which connotes a gathering or grouping: e.g., Geviert, ge-eignet, Ge-stell, Gemiit, Gedichtnis, Geschick

Heidegger on Science and Naturalism

Joseph Rouse

In thinking about the being of the entities discovered in the sciences, we do not think about something else. Being is not itself an entity, but only the disclosure of entities as intelligible. Philosophical reflection would not take us away from the subject matter of the sciences, but would instead aim to bring one back afresh to “the things themselves” in their essential disclosedness.

martin-heidegger.org

Daniel Ferrer

Indexes, audio, and more.

Dolores hears a Who: the call of conscience in Westworld [PDF]

Will Dolores Pass the Dasein Test? Heidegger and Westworld [PDF] [Up to episode 3.]

Doug C. Wise

Summoning her out of her loop, her programming, Alltäglichkeit. “All lives have routines, mine’s no different,” she says. She regularly recites the script of her Grundstimmung, her fundamental attunement: “Some people choose to see the ugliness in this world. I choose to see the beauty. To believe there is an order to our days, a purpose.” But Dolores did not make that choice, it was programmed into her, a literal Stimmung, a calibration; it’s part of her thrown constitution, Geworfenheit.

The decentralization of knowledge: How Carnap and Heidegger influenced the Web

Harry Halpin and Alexandre Monnin

When an object is “ready to hand”, it becomes the exact opposite of explicit knowledge with various attributes that must be consciously grasped: More like a hammer in use by a skilled carpenter or a screen when a programmer is debugging, the tool itself becomes invisible by virtue of being thoroughly integrated into the practical activity itself. It was this insight that ended up transforming AI and machine learning more than any other insight from Heidegger, even if the insight was perhaps altered beyond recognition to Heidegger himself in transmission.

A Question of Faith: Heidegger's Destructed Concept of Faith as the Origin of Questioning in Philosophy

Vincent Blok

Our hypothesis is that Heidegger’s concept of holding-to-be-true is a necessary condition for the “original stance of inquiry of philosophy”, because only in a philosophical questioning that is characterized by faith as holding-to-be-true, the “truth of being” can originally resonate.

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Interpretation of Nietzsche's Second Untimely Meditation

Martin Heidegger

Translated by Ullrich Haase and Mark Sinclair

Seminar winter semester 1940-39 (GA 46).

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The Affaire Sheehan / Birmingham: Fritsche’s Rülpser on Heidegger’s Being and Time [PDF]

Johannes Fritsche

“Occurrence” is an appropriate translation of the word Zusammenvorkommen in Heidegger’s phrase “Zusammenvorkommen mehrerer Subjekte,” but as a translation of Geschehen in Hei-degger’s determination of Geschick (“occurrence [Geschehen] of the community [der Ge-meinschaft], of {the} people [des Volkes]” it is probably too pale (Macquarrie and Robinson have “historizing”).

The Future of Continental Realism
Heidegger's Fourfold [PDF]

Graham Harman

The withdrawal of things from all access is not some quirky existential/psychological feature of humans, but infects even the most rudimentary forms of inanimate causation. Veiling and unveiling are ubiquitous: even between billiard balls, even between fire and cotton, and even when humans are not observing, do not yet exist, or exist no longer.

Sense, Meaning, and Hermeneutics
From Aristotle to Heidegger

Thomas Sheehan

[T]hrown-open or appropriated ex-sistence, as the clearing, is responsible for all forms of the meaningful presence (the being) of things. Es gibt Sein because Ereignis gibt Sein, that is: The reason why there is “being” (the meaningful presence of something) at all is that the appropriation of ex-sistence to its proprium as the clearing makes that possible.

Contributions to geography? The spaces of Heidegger's Beitrage

Stuart Elden

Time-space takes on a particularly privileged role in the Beiträge, as "originally the site for the moment of propriation [Augenblicks-Staätte des Ereignisses]". Although this is perhaps more important for Heidegger scholarship than for geography, we should note that this is the way to understand the notion of Da-sein, as "the site for the moment of the grounding of the truth of beyng".

The 50th Annual Meeting of The Heidegger Circle 2016

September 15-18 2016

DePaul University Chicago

James Bahoh Larry Berger Robert Bernasconi Peg Birmingham Scott Campbell Richard Capobianco Daniel Dahlstrom Sean Driscoll Jessica S. Elkayam Jesús Adrián Escudero Gregory Fried Wayne Froman Jennifer Gammage Matthew Girson Rico Gutschmidt Peter Hanly Rebecca Longtin Hansen Lawrence Hatab Julia Ireland Khafiz Kerimov Theodore Kisiel Adam Knowles María del Rosario Acosta López Brendan Mahoney Eduardo Mendieta Andrew J. Mitchell Ian Moore David Nowell-Smith David Pettigrew Richard Polt Jeffrey Powell François Raffoul Joel Reynolds Karen Robertson Elizabeth Rottenberg John Sallis Thomas Sheehan Marcia Sá Cavalcante Schuback Dennis Skocz Peter Trawny Daniela Vallega-Neu Kate Withy David Wood

Metaphysics and beyond – Heidegger in contemporary Arabic philosophy

Kata Moser

Arab philosophers read Heidegger as a critic of metaphysics in and through language and they, in addition, go beyond this by applying it in the frame of their own philosophical projects.

Phenomenology and the Empirical Turn: a Phenomenological Analysis of Postphenomenology

Vincent Blok

[W]e can say that Enframing does not primarily concern the content [Gehalt] of phenomena called human-technology relations, but concerns a relation [Bezug] that we already enact [Vollzug] in encountering these phenomena. Understood on this ontological level, Enframing means a reciprocal setting-upon [stellen] of being and thinking with regard to function, which is technical inasmuch as utility marks the main trait of the horizon toward which all experiential correlations are oriented.

Heidegger in Plain English: The Phenomenology in Being and Time [PDF]

Joshua Broggi

In the entire scope of what is classified fundamentally, everything exists without conscious linguistic naming or self-conscious, reflective consideration; instead every thing is known in terms of its use, its purpose, its teleology – everything appears in terms of how it will matter for us.

Review of Heidegger and the Myth of a Jewish World Conspiracy and Freedom to Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy by Peter Trawny

from Marx & Philosophy Review of Books

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Review of Freedom to Fail: Heidegger’s Anarchy by Peter Trawny [PDF]

from International Journal of Philosophical Studies (24.2)

Eric D. Meyer

Trawny’s essay ventures into those obscure passages in Heidegger’s works where most Heideggerians have feared to tread, because, he argues, it is on these sinister, darksome pathways of errancy where “the controversy surrounding the name of Heidegger [is] gathered” in its blackest light.

The Origin of Art and the Destination of Thinking

Die Herkunft der Kunst und die Bestimmung des Denkens (Vortrag in der Akademie der Wissenschaften und Künste in Athen 4. April 1967), GA 80

Translated by

Dimitrios Latsis

[W]hat is the reason for this discussion of cybernetics, futurology and industrial society? Have we not, in so doing, strayed too far away from the question of the provenance of art? Indeed, it would appear so — and is, yet, not the case.

Man’s Dwelling

Das Wohnen des Menschen, GA 13

A new translation by

Cesar A. Cruz

That region’s overall inclination ought to be termed a clearing: a clearing in which the heavenly ones incline towards Earth’s mortals in a manner both foreign and generous, and where those on earth incline to the heavenly by way of gratitude and cultivation.

From Architecture Philosophy Volume 2 Number 1.

Alexander Dugin on Martin Heidegger

Interview by

Michael Millerman

In order to understand Heidegger correctly, we need to share the basic anti-modern position that explains the main direction of his thought. He cannot be understood by liberals or communists (new leftists). They will criticize him or pervert his thought.

Being at the Beginning: Heidegger's Interpretation of Heraclitus [PDF]

Daniel O. Dahlstrom

[T]o think this beginning in a way that captures its originary, inceptive dimension is to come to understand being in a way different from yet underlying the Greek beginning and its understanding of being (Sein) as φύσις. It is, in other words, to understand be-ing (Seyn) as the historical grounding of the meaning of being and its difference from beings, i.e., as the ground that constitutes and thus appropriates to itself the essential correlation of that meaning and human understanding of it.

Heidegger on the Relationship between Sterēsis and Kairos: Heidegger’s Interpretation of Aristotle’s Sterēsis as the Basic Movement of Kairological Vision [PDF]

Dr. Eric Schumacher

Dasein’s dealing with beings, its comportment with the world, from out of an understanding of the structure of sterēsis sees Dasein demonstrating a particular vision. This vision is the vision of the Kairos.

Heidegger's Ontology of Work

Vincent Blok

Heidegger's concept of work in Being and Time prevents access to being, while the concept of work in the thirties provides exactly access to being.

Clearing Being: Donald Barthelme’s Snow White and the Thought of Martin Heidegger

Charles Cullum

Snow White is still struggling with the fallenness of following a role assigned to her by society or the “they-self” and has not reached the point of making an authentic choice of her own future.

At the End of a Still Day in the Hut

Martin Heidegger

Am Ende stiller Hüttentage 12 September 1931, GA 16, translated by Timothy Lavenz.

Emmanuel Faye: The Introduction of Fraud Into Philosophy? [PDF]

Thomas Sheehan

Of course Faye may be subjectively convinced that the claims he makes are both exact and true. But philosophy demands more than mere assertion of strongly held convictions without evidence to support them. And above all, philosophy demands intellectual honesty in advancing one’s claims—and in retracting them after one has been shown in considerable detail why those claims are unsupported and unsupportable.

Heidegger’s Support for Deep Ecology Reexamined Once Again: Ontological Egalitarianism, Or Farewell to the Great Chain of Being

Magdalena Holy-Luczaj

[I]t seems that it is being that is “between” man and things. It founds their ontological kinship. Being is not therefore limited only to a man, but being embraces also other beings making them “appropriate for themselves.”

Heidegger and Vandana Shiva: Science, Violence and the Saving Power

Patricia Glazebrook

Heidegger and Shiva agree, then, that modern science and technology together constitute a reductive and violent assault that limits knowledge. Where they part ways, further analysis does not uncover disagreement, but shows that each has something to contribute to the thinking of the other.

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Capital and Technology: Marx and Heidegger

Michael Eldred

According to Heidegger's own statements (which of course do not have to be taken as the final source of evidence), from 1937 on, at the time of writing the Contributions to Philosophy - From Enowning , the word 'propriation' or 'enowning' assumes a position as principal word in his thinking. The essence of technology is also thought through in the 1940s under the aura of propriation. In an unusual text from the fifties, Identity and Difference, [...] Heidegger talks of a twisting of the set-up into propriation, of the "sudden flash of propriation" within the set-up. In this text there is a sort of toggle relationship between the most extreme consummation of metaphysics and the twisting of metaphysics into propriation, a 'getting-over-metaphysics', in which humans would "lose" their determination of essence which metaphysics has "lent" them.

Enframing the Flesh: Heidegger, Transhumanism, and the Body as “Standing Reserve”

Jesse I. Bailey

When we, through transhumanism, (attempt to) turn the organic into more mechanical technology, we lose that orientation – not just the world, but the self, our very identity, is given over to enframing. When our own bodies become enframed through a technology that defies even death, we are not freed for genuine individuality.

Heidegger’s Black Night: The Nachlass & its Wirkungsgeschichte

Babette Babich

The publication of unpublished texts changes published texts but above all invites us to a reflection upon the working history or reception of those same texts. This Heidegger is at pains to indicate in his reading of Nietzsche but in the Schwarze Hefte he points to Hölderlin and Hegel too. The notebooks themselves illustrate Heidegger’s thesis on the backward working effects of the Nachlaß.

Enigmatic Origins Tracing the Theme of Historicity through Heidegger's Works [PDF] 120 KB!

Hans Ruin

The task therefore becomes not one of specifying a primordial level of temporal existential projection, but of developing a reflection that may somehow do justice to the enigmatic giving—the Es gibt—in which both time and being are given to man. This attempt eventually culminates in the account of Ereignis as an event of truth, as αλήθΕΐα. However, it is also an attempt for which a whole range of "historical" concepts are activated: being is here designated as "history," as "sending," and as "happening" (Geschichte, Geschick, Geschehen).

Image-less Thinking: The Time-Space for the Imagination in Heidegger

Krzysztof Ziarek

Heidegger‟s retrospective commentary on his reconceptualization of the work of art underscores clearly the need to understand the setting-into-the-work of truth as Ereignis, specifically because the truth of being transpires solely as event. While the double, true and false, etymology of Ereignis that links it to manifestation and propriation is well known, the publication of the so-called private manuscripts, including the most recent volumes 73 through 76, makes clear the significant degree to which Heidegger inflects the valence of the term Ereignis through the prism of singularity (Einzigkeit).

What is Metaphysics?

Translated by Thomas Sheehan

The action of the no-thing is no ordinary event. It pushes us back and directs us toward the things that are slipping out of meaning, and in so doing it discloses these things in their full and heretofore hidden strangeness as the radically other, i.e., as other than the no-thing. In the clear night of the no-thing experienced in dread, there occurs the original revelation of the meaningfulness of things: the fact that things are meaningful and are not the no-thing.

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual

Volume 5, 2015

Peter Trawny, Jesús Adrián Escudero, Anthony Steinbock, Joshua Rayman, Adam Knowles

Owning Ourselves and Encountering Others: Authenticity, Indifference and Desire

Karen Robertson

Shared, meaningful contexts consistently invite the presence of others without demonstrating that this very openness functions by perpetuating an attitude towards others that is characterized by a blindness to particularity and contingency. An appropriate response to others would involve a sensitivity to their implicit participation in our projects by way of our shared contexts.

On the Reading of Heidegger – Situating the Black Notebooks [PDF in ZIP]

Jeff Malpas

This is surely one of the vanities of philosophy – that philosophy can guide politics, that it can provide the ground for political decision. If, however, we take the recognition of the failing character of thinking as lying at the heart of philosophy, as perhaps it ought, then perhaps the proper and only role for philosophy in relation to politics can be one, not of decision, but precisely of constant questioning

Heidegger and the Human Difference

Chad Engelland

The oddest part of Heidegger's account of Dasein is the body. He admits its kinship with animals yet denies that it is an animal body. He thinks the meaning of the body comes from openness to being; handicraft, gesturing, dancing, etc. are what they are due to openness to being.

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Heidegger on Being Uncanny

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Katherine Withy

How the uncanny reveals the limitations on our ability to make sense of ourselves, and why this finitude is constitutive for being human.

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A "Fundamental Theory" of Education Grounded in Ontology? A Phenomenological Rejoinder

James M. Magrini

[A]t the most basic level of lived experience, absorbed coping is about meaning and meaningful activity, which finds structure in the fore-the-sake-of-which we do things, and "its constituents are 'in-order-to' realize some possible way of being". To reinforce this notion, Heidegger describes walking across a room as a field experience: "My encounter with the room is not such that I first take in one thing after another and put together a manifold of things in order to then see a room. Rather, I primarily see a referential whole".

Anxious Spirits – Pneumatology in Heidegger, Paul, and Kierkegaard [PDF in ZIP]

Hans Ruin

Heidegger insists that the phenomenological question of method is not a question of the appropriate methodological system, but of access, how to find the way to a “factical” life experience. A phenomenology of religious life, he writes, should not be a theory about the religious, conceived of as an object of study in the standard mode of a science of religion, but rather as a way of entering in understanding the religious as a form of meaning-fulfilment or enactment.

Heidegger, Technology, and Homeland

Charles Bambach

Heidegger also came to grasp autochthony as the name for an understanding of history as a destiny [Geschichte als ein Geschick] to which we primordially belong and through which we are appropriated by the gift-giving power of being (what he would term Ereignis).

Hitler the Anti-Nihilist? Statehood, Leadership, and Political Space in Heidegger’s Seminar of 1933-34 [PDF]

Richard Polt

Heidegger proceeds to assign an ontological status to the relation between people and state: that is, what it means for a particular people to be must be established through its state. While he leaves open the question of what a people in general is, he claims that the state is not just ‘grounded in the Being of the people’ but is the Being of the people

Things Fall Apart: Heidegger on the Constancy and Finality of Death

Taylor Carman

Dying understood as that essential proneness to collapse just is the preciousness of life.

What is The Last God in Heidegger?

Andrew Glynn

In improvising from latent possibilities, those that are dormant in Greek mythology may be as relevant for Heidegger's thinking of Ereignis as is the violence he does to Greek etymologies. Heidegger doesn't posit some “golden age” in which aletheia, for example, was actually experienced as unconcealment, but that interpretation can be exchanged for our usual understanding of truth in such a way that adequatio gives way to an improvised having-been where a latent possibility becomes an actualizable potential.

Naturalizing Dasein. Aporias of the neo-Heideggerian approach in cognitive science [PDF]

This can be couched in the following terms: philosophy is all right, but in this intellectual marriage demanded by Wheeler, it is science the one with preeminence when it comes to the postulation of existing objects. Escaping the Cartesian mindset does not impose on us an obligation of forsaking the grounds of a scientifically informed philosophy. We are, after all, Muggles, and must abide by nonmagical methods and by the constraints they impose.

Making AI Philosophical Again: On Philip E. Agre’s Legacy [PDF]

Influenced heavily by Dreyfus’s pragmatization of Heidegger, Agre too understands Sein und Zeit as providing a phenomenology of ordinary routine activities, and believes Heidegger’s Analytik des Daseins can provide useful guidance for the development of computational theories of interaction.

Jethro Masís

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Heidegger's Way of Being

Richard Capobianco

Six essays on the primacy of Being in Heidegger's thinking, continuing the case for the overarching importance of Being for Heidegger begun in Engaging Heidegger.

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How Presencing (Anwesen) Became Heidegger’s Concept of Being [PDF]

Juan Pablo Hernández

I claim that the notion of Anwesen only came to express Heidegger’s own positive conception of being around the mid-forties and after a complex and relatively long process correlative, on the one hand, to the evolution of his use of the term ‘Wesen,’ and to his reappropriation of the Presocratics, on the other

Reconnecting with Nature in the Age of Technology
The Heidegger and Radical Environmentalism Debate Revisited [PDF]

Vincent Blok

Heidegger’s reflection on the essence of technology cannot claim to be already an alternative way of bringing forth, but is primarily concerned about the right way to come into the hermeneutic circle, to move in the circular course of the challenging of man and nature in the technological age and at the same time to hold back in order to experience the essence of technology.

Heidegger and the Philosophy of Language [PDF]

Wayne D. Owens

[I]nsofar as all language is historical, the objectification of language itself at any particular time imposes a stasis in an historically fluid phenomenon. The "loss of Being" incurred when it becomes the object of representing means restriction of a genuinely historical manifold to what has been spoken or imagined to have been spoken in a particular language.

Taylor Carman on Image and Shadow: Heidegger on the Limits of Scientific Representation.

Heidegger and Our Twenty-first Century Experience of Ge-Stell [PDF]

Theodore Kisiel

Against the current English favorite of “enframing,” I therefore propose an etymological translation of Ge-Stell from its Greek and Latin roots as “syn-thetic com- posit[ion]ing,” where the Greek-rooted adjective ‘synthetic’ adds the note of artifactuality and even artifi ciality to the system of positions and posits.

Heidegger’s Ereignis and Wittgenstein on the Genesis of Language [PDF]

Richard McDonough

Heidegger’s account of his fundamental concept, the Ereignis, the opening of the Open (Sheehan, 2001: p. 5; Wheeler, 2011: § 3.1, 3.2.) provides a far better model of Wittgenstein’s point in Z608 [p. 608 of Wittgenstein’s Zettel]. The paper argues, first, that Z608 is not making a sudden inexplicable venture into verboten neural theorizing, but is describing something akin to Heidegger’s Ereignis, and, second, that comparing Wittgenstein’s and Heidegger’s respective views illuminates them both.

Heidegger’s Black Notebooks: Philosophy, Politics, Anti-Semitism

Emory University
September 5-6, 2014

Speakers: Peter Trawny (Bergische Universität Gesamthochschule Wuppertal), Bettina Bergo (Université de Montréal), Robert Bernasconi (Pennsylvania State University), Martin Gessmann (Hochschule für Gestaltung, Offenbach am Main), Sander Gilman (Emory University), Peter E. Gordon (Harvard University), Michael Marder (University of the Basque Country, Vitoria-Gasteiz), Eduardo Mendieta (Stony Brook University), Richard Polt (Xavier University), Tom Rockmore (Peking University)