comparative manner, yet never accomplished in its own terms, which is the presupposition of the comparison.
35. Being's Abandonment
Being has abandoned beings: in each case this one and that one, in each case now and then, in each case there and here, the push is toward what is next within the domain of a makeability that is ascribed to beings. This ascription, however, is only a belated Yes to what it has already effected and enticed into busied activity. On each occasion, particular beings now offer themselves everywhere and constantly in their makeability. Beings depend upon their malleability, but without knowing or conceding such malleability as being. Beings abandoned by being—how, then, are they supposed to be abandoned?
Through the fact that they admit of no reflection upon being and its truth in the sense of a decision that would have to profoundly unsettle beings as a whole. Being's abandonment does not, therefore, mean unhitching beings from being: on the contrary, in such abandonment what is abandoned still remains related to that which abandons it—assigned to it—such that it depends upon that which abandons it, albeit in different ways. The abandonment is an essential one whenever that which abandons as such is no longer knowable, and yet a veiled semblance embraces everything.
This no longer admitting receives its own "stubbornness" and decisiveness from the fact that it has made a standing in truth un-necessary. The need has vanished because all beings have become explicable, and above all being too. One need only be acquainted with the constitution of the human being, and that everything is played out within the making that attends his fabrications. What is more illuminating, more convincing and elevating, and at the same time more endless, than such knowledge?
In the "light" of such knowledge the human being is blinded and sees only himself-"anthropology." This blinding, however, admits being, as the blindness of the oblivion of being.
36. The End of the Modern Age in the History of Beyng
The metaphysical event of the consummation of modernity is the empowering of "communism" as the historical constitution of the era of consummate meaninglessness [Sinnlosigkeit]. In keeping with the concept