The History of Beyng


CONTENTS


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Translators' Introduction


THE HISTORY OF BEYNG (1938-40)


THE HISTORY OF BEYNG. PART I


I. The History of Beyng


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1. "The History of Beyng" Is the Name ...

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2. The History of Beyng

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3. Western Philosophy

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4. The Truth of Beyng

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5. Are We?

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6. "We Are"

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7. Da-sein

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8. Beyng

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9. ἀλήθεια and Beyng

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10. That Truth ...


II. Contra-diction and Refutation


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11. Contra-diction and Refutation (Re-iteration)

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12. The Historicism of Modernity and the History of Beyng


III. Passage. The History of Beyng


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13. The Consummation of Metaphysics

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14. Strife

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15. Strife

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16. World-relation

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17. The Historical Moment

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18. The Other Sovereignty

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19. What Is That?

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20. Beyng and Beings

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21. The Commencement

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22. What the Singular Need Is

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23. The History of Beyng

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24. The Representedness of Beings as the Actual

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25. Beingness as Representedness

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26. The History of Beyng

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27. Beyng as Sustainment

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28. The History of Beyng

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29. The History "of" Beyng

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30. The Failure to Recognize the Commencement

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31. The History of Beyng

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32. Magnanimity and Forbearance toward What Is Most in Coming


IV. The Consummation of Metaphysics Being's Abandonment


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33. The Consummation of Metaphysics

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34. The Overcoming of Metaphysics. The Transition

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35. Being's Abandonment

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36. The End of the Modern Age in the History of Beyng


V. Τὸ Κοινόν


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37. Passage

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38. Subjectivity and Being's Abandonment

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39. Κοινόν. On Passage

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40. On the Concept of Machination

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41. Machination (conceived in terms of the history of beyng)

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42. Machination and Devastation

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43. "Total" War


VI. The Sustainment. The Essence of Power
The Necessary


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44. "The Dis-tinction"

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45. The Trace Pointing to the Truth of Beyng

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46. The Trace Pointing to the Truth of Beyng
The Un-usual in the Essential Sense

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47. The Truth of Beyng

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48. Beyng

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49. The Decision. Beyng and the Human Being

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50. Decision

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51. Decision and the Future

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52. Beyng

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53. Beyng

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54. Machination and Event

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55. The Singular Decision

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56. Whence Being as Power?

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57. The Essence of Power

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58. The Determination of the Essence of Power

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59. Power "Needs" Power (Violence)

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60. Power and Violence

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61. Power and Crime

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62. The Essence of Power and Subjugation

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63. "The Demonic Nature of Power"

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64. Power and Truth

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65. Power and Leveling

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66. Power and Wretchedness

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67. "Power" and "System"

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68. Power and Public

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69. The Inhabitual and the Unexpected

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70. The Necessary

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71. Beyng-Historical Thinking

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72. The Essence of Philosophy

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73. The Human Being and Da-sein


VII. The Essence of History. "Commencement." "Beyng"


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74. History

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75. History

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76. History

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77. The Essence of History

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78. History (Past and Having-been)

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79. The History of Beyng

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80. History and Beyng

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81. Concerning the Essence of History

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82. Commencement-History-The Suddenness of the Commencement

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83. Essence of History

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84. "Life" and "History"

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85. Historiography

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86. History

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87. History

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88. The Essence of History


VIII. Beyng and the Last God


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89. The Last God

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90. The Countering

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91. Confidence and Dasein

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92. Beyng Is ...

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93. Event

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94. Earth and World

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95. Beyng

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96. Beyng

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97. Beyng and the Nothing

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98. Beyng. Coming to Be Appropriated into the In-between

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99. Poverty

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100. Poverty


IX. Essence of History


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101. The Beyng-Historical Concept

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102. Beyng

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103. The History of Beyng

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104. History of Beyng

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105. Bestowal and Reflection

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106. The Joint Crumbling of the German and Russian Worlds through Machination


X. The Owned


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107. Bestowal and Impoverishment

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108. The Owned (Beings in Beyng as Event)

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109. The Owned

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110. The Owned

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111. Beyng

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112. The Owned


THE HISTORY OF BEYNG. PART II


XI. The Configuration of Saying


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113. Beyng

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114. The History of Beyng

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115. The History of Beyng

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116. The History of Beyng

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117. The History of Beyng

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118. Beyng

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119. Beyng

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120. Beyng

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121. Guiding Words

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122. Only Beyng Is

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123. Beyng

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124. Beyng

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125. Beyng Is the Once

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126. Event

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127. The Event of Appropriation and the History of Beyng

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128. In the Event of Appropriation

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129. Truth as the Clearing

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130. Truth

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131. Concealing

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132. Truth

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133. Is Beyng Always?

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134. Beyng as Event of Appropriation


XII. The History of Beyng
(Da-sein)


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135. Da-sein

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136. That the Historical Human Being Comes into His Essence (Da-sein)

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137. Da-sein

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138. Protection

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139. Errancy

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140. Da-sein

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141. Being's Abandonment

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142. The Projections of the Being of Beings from Out of the Casting of Being Itself

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143. Seeking More Essentially the Other Commencement

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144. Word and Language

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145. The Decision

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146. Beyng

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147. The History of Beyng

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148. The History of the Human in Being

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149. History

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150. Democritus, Fragment 269

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151. The Thinker

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152. They Rail Surreptitiously and Openly . . .

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153. History, Commencement, Downgoing

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154. "Ego" and "Subject"

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155. The Being of Beings and Beyngs of Beyng

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156. The History of Beyng

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157. Experience and Steadfast Insistence

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158. The Leap Off

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159. The First Commencement

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160. The Essencing of Truth as Clearing of Beyng

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161. The Human Being and Anthropology

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162. The Human-animal rationale

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163. Metaphysics-Anthropology

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164. The First Commencement and the Human as ζῷον λόγον ἔχον

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165. The History of Essential Thinking

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166. Truth and Beyng. The Essence of History


XIII. Beyng-Historical Thinking


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167. Beyng-Historical Thinking and Philosophy

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168. Beyng-Historical Thinking

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169. "Philosophy" in the Other Commencement

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170. "Philosophy"

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171. The Commencement

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172. Essential Thinking

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173. Beyng-Historical Thinking

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174. Freedom

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175. Honoring and Valuing

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176. Questioning

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177. Pure Finding

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178. The Sequence of Publications (in short treatises)


Κοινόν
OUT OF THE HISTORY OF BEYNG (1939-40)


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Κοινόν. Out of the History of Beyng

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Draft for Κοινόν. On the History of Beyng


Appendix


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Additional Materials for The History of Beyng (1938-40)

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Additional Materials for Κοινόν. Out of the History of Beyng (1939-40)

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Editor's Epilogue

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German-English Glossary

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English-German Glossary





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