Contributions to Philosophy
(of the Event)

CONTENTS

Translator's Introductionxv

I. PROSPECT

The official title: Contributions to Philosophy and the essential rubric: Of the Event

1. These "contributions" question along a way ...

2. The saying of the event as the first answering of the question of being

3. Of the event

4. Of the event

5. For the few—For the rare

6. The basic disposition

7. Of the event

8. Of the event

9. Conspectus

10. Of the event

11. Event—Dasein—the human being

12. Event and history

13. Restraint

14. Philosophy and worldview

15. Philosophy as "philosophy of a people"

16. Philosophy

17. The necessity of philosophy

18. The powerlessness of thinking

19. Philosophy (On the question: Who are we?)

20. The beginning and inceptual thinking

21. Inceptual thinking (Projection)

22. Inceptual thinking

23. Inceptual thinking. Why thinking out of the beginning?

24. The aberrant demand placed on inceptual thinking

25. Historicality and being

26. Philosophy as knowledge

27. Inceptual thinking (Concept)

28. The immeasurableness of inceptual thinking as finite thinking

29. Inceptual thinking (The question of the essence)

30. Inceptual thinking (as meditation)

31. The style of inceptual thinking

32. The event. A decisive gaze after the carrying out of the resonating and the interplay

33. The question of beyng

34. The event and the question of being

35. The event

36. Language and the inventive thinking of beyng

37. Beyng and its bearing silence (Sigetics)

38. Bearing silence

39. The event

40. The work of thought in the age of transitio

41. Every saying of beyng is couched in words and namings

42. From "Being and Time" to "Event

43. Beyng and decision

44. "Decisions"

45. The "decision"

46. The decision (Preliminary concept

47. The essence of the decision: being or nonbeing

48. In what sense the decision belongs to beyng itself

49. Why must decisions take place

II. THE RESONATING

50. Resonating

51. The resonating

52. The abandonment by being

53. Plight

54. The abandonment by being

55. Resonating

56. The continuance of the abandonment by being in the hidden mode of the forgottenness of being

57. The history of beyng and the abandonment by being

58. The three ways the abandonment by being cloaks itself: What they are and how they appear

59. Bewitchery and the era of complete unquestionableness

60. Whence the lack of a sense of plight as the greatest plight?

61. Machination

62. The disguising of the abandonment by being through machination and "lived experience," a disguising which belongs to that abandonment itself

63. Lived experience

64. Machination

65. The distorted essence of beyng

66. Machination and lived experience

67. Machination and lived experience

68. Machination and lived experience

69. Lived experience and "anthropology"

70. The gigantic

71. The gigantic

72. Nihilism

73. "Science" and the abandonment by being

74. "Total mobilization" as a consequence of the original abandonment by being

75. Concerning the meditation on science

76. Propositions about "science"

77. Experiri—experientia—experimentum—"experimentation"—ἐμπειρία—experience—test

78. Experiri (ἐμπειρία)—"experiencing"

79. Exact science and experimentation

80. Experiri—experientia—experimentum—"experimentation"

III. THE INTERPLAY

81. Interplay

82. Interplay

83. Being, according to all metaphysics

84. Beings

85. The originary appropriation of the first beginning means gaining a foothold in the other beginning

86. What the history of metaphysics provides and thus passes on as still implicit and as unknown to this history

87. The history of the first beginning (the history of metaphysics)

88. The "historical" lecture courses belong in the sphere of this task

89. The transition to the other beginning

90. From the first to the other beginning. Negation

91. From the first to the other beginning

92. The confrontation between the first and the other beginning

93. The great philosophies

94. The confrontation of the other beginning

95. The first beginning

96. The inceptual interpretation of beings as φύσις

97. Φύσις (τέχνη)

98. The projection of beingness upon constant presence

99. "Being" and "becoming" in inceptual thinking

100. The first beginning

101. From early on, the great simplicity ...

102. Thinking: The guideline of the guiding question of Western philosophy

103. On the concept of German Idealism

104. German Idealism

105. Hölderlin—Kierkegaard—Nietzsche

106. The decision with regard to all "ontology" in carrying out the confrontation between the first and the other beginning

107. The answer to the guiding question and the form of traditional metaphysics

108. The basic metaphysical positions within the history of the guiding question and their respective interpretations of time-space

109. Ἰδέα

110. The ἰδέα, Platonism, and idealism

111. The "apriori" and φύσις

112. The "apriori""

113. Ἰδέα and οὐσία

114. On Nietzsche's basic metaphysical position

IV. THE LEAP

115. The disposition guiding the leap

116. The history of being

117. The leap

118. The leap

119. The leap is prepared by asking the basic question

120. The leap

121. Beyng and beings

122. The leap (the thrown projection)

123. Beyng

124. The leap

125. Beyng and time

126. Beyng, beings, and the gods

127. The fissure

128. Beyng and the human being

129. Nothingness

130. The "essence" of beyng

131. The excess in the essence of beyng (self-concealment)

132. Beyng and beings

133. The essence of beyng

134. The relation between Da-sein and beyng

135. The essential occurrence of beyng as event (the relation between Da-sein and beyng)

136. Beyng

137. Beyng

138. The truth of beyng and the understanding of being

139. The essential occurrence of beyng: Truth and time-space

140. The essential occurrence of beyng

141. The essence of beyng

142. The essence of beyng

143. Beyng

144. Beyng and the original strife (beyng or non-beyng in the essence of beyng itself)

145. Beyng and nothingness

146. Beyng and non-beyng

147. The essential occurrence of beyng (the finitude of beyng)

148. Beings are

149. The beingness of beings distinguished according to τί ἔστιν and ὅτι ἔστιν

150. The origin of the distinction between what a being is and the fact that it is

151. Being and beings

152. The levels of beyng

153. Life

154. "Life"

155. Nature and earth

156. The fissure

157. The fissure and the "modalities"

158. The fissure and the "modalities"

159. The fissure

160. Being-toward-death and being

161. Being-toward-death

162. Being-toward-death

163. Being-toward-death and being

164. The essential occurrence of beyng

165. Essence as essential occurrence

166. Essential occurrence and essence

167. Entering into the essential occurrence

V. THE GROUNDING

a) Da-sein and the projection of being

168. Da-sein and beyng

169. Da-sein

170. Da-sein

171. Da-sein

172. Da-sein and the question of being

173. Da-sein

174. Da-sein and steadfastness

175. Da-sein and beings as a whole

176. Da-sein. Clarification of the word

177. Being-away

178. "Da-sein exists for the sake of itself"

179. "Existence" (Being and Time, [German] p. 42)

180. Beyng and the understanding of being

181. The leap

182. The projection of beyng. The projection as thrown

183. The projection upon beyng

184. The question of being as the question of the truth of beyng

185. What does Da-sein mean?

186. Da-sein

b) Da-sein and the projection of being

187. The grounding

188. The grounding

189. Da-sein

190. Of Da-sein

191. Da-sein

192. Da-sein

193. Da-sein and the human being

194. The human being and Da-sein

195. Da-sein and the human being

196. Da-sein and a people

197. Da-sein—domain of what is proper—selfhood

198. The grounding of Da-sein as a creative grounding

199. Transcendence, Da-sein, and beyng

200. Da-sein

201. Da-sein and being-away

202. Da-sein (Being-away)

203. The projection and Da-sein

c) The essence of truth

204. The essence of truth

205. The open

206. From ἀλήθεια to Da-sein

207. From ἀλήθεια to Da-sein

208. Truth

209. Ἀλήθεια—openness and the clearing of what is self-concealing

210. Concerning the history of the essence of truth

211. Ἀλήθεια. The crisis of its history in Plato and Aristotle, its last glimmering and complete collapse

212. Truth as certainty

213. What the question of truth is about

214. The essence of truth (Openness)

215. The essential occurrence of truth

216. The posing of the question of truth

217. The essence of truth

218. The indication of the essential occurrence of truth

219. The conjuncture of the question of truth

220. The question of truth

221. Truth as the essential occurrence of beyng

222. Truth

223. The essence of truth (the distorted essence of truth)

224. The essence of truth

225. The essence of truth

226. Ἀλήθεια and the clearing of concealment

227. On the essence of truth

228. The essence of truth is un-truth

229. Truth and Da-sein

230. Truth and correctness

211. How truth, ἀλήθεια, becomes correctness

232. The question of truth as historical meditation

233. Incorporating the interpretation of the cave allegory (1931-32,1933-34) into the question of truth

234. The question of truth (Nietzsche)

235. Truth and genuineness

236. Truth

237. Belief and truth

d) Time-space as the abyssal ground

238. Time-space

239. Time-space (preparatory deliberation)

240. Time and space. Their "reality" and their "provenance"

241. Space and time—time-space

242. Time-space as the abyssal ground

e) The essential occurrence of truth as a sheltering

243. Sheltering

244. Truth and sheltering

245. Truth and sheltering

246. The sheltering of truth in what is true

247. The grounding of Da-sein and the paths to the sheltering of truth

VI. THE FUTURE ONES

248. The future ones

249. The basic disposition of the future ones

250. The future ones

251. Da-sein and the essence of a people

252. Da-sein and the future ones of the last god

VII. THE LAST GOD

253. What is last

254. Refusal

255. The turning in the event

256. The last god

VIII. BEYNG

257. Beyng

258. Philosophy

259. Philosophy

260. The gigantic

261. Views of beyng

262. The "projection" of beyng and beyng as projection

263. Every projection is a thrown projection

264. The projection of beyng and the understanding of being

265. The inventive thinking of beyng

266. Beyng and the "ontological difference." The "differentiation"

267. Beyng (Event)

268. Beyng (The differentiation)

269. Beyng

270. The essence of beyng (essential occurrence)

271. Da-sein

272. The human being

273. History

274. Beings and calculation

275. Beings

276. Beyng and language

277. "Metaphysics" and the origin of the work of art

278. Origin of the work of art

279. But what of the gods?

280. The transitional question

281. Language (its origin)

Editor's Afterword

German-English Glossary

English-German Glossary

Greek-English Glossary

Latin-English Glossary

Bibliography

Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) (GA 65) [GA App]

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