alone being itself in the essence of its truth.) How is history here, the essence of history, a matter of the event?
66. Tradition out of the essence of historiality
Historiality [das Geschicht] is essentially consigning as ordinance (event). In consignment, tradition is grounded—only as grounded is it genuine tradition. To what extent are cognitions required here? Cognitions without remembrance are null. Consignment—beginning and remembrance.
67. History and historiology
Historiology brings us to the point that we, although in essence historical, behave everywhere unhistorically.
How can historiology do that? Because historiology, as belonging to the essence of technology, has its origin in the essential transformation of truth and being.
Historiology—as exploration—calculation about the past, as authorship, as science, as literature, as journalism, as research and archival organization; propaganda as planned historiologizing, radio, film. In the sphere of historiology and technology, representation is directed only to institutions, accomplishments, works, productive persons, individuals and masses; directed to civilization, culture, and politics—all things made by the human being, nowhere reality itself.
Because this lack is felt, one escapes to “ideology” and to “ideas,” the history of “ideas.”
Platonism in historiology—in accord with the metaphysical essence of historiology—is unavoidable; the various forms of banal Platonism; the misfortune of the consideration appropriate to the lack.