Studies in Continental Thought. Hubert L. Dreyfus Reiner Schürmann. David Farrell Krell Thomas Sheehan Lenore Langsdorf Robert Sokolowski.

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2 The Event

3 Studies in Continental Thought EDITOR JOHN SALLIS CONSULTING EDITORS Robert Bernasconi William L. McBride Rudolf Bernet J. N. Mohanty John D. Caputo Mary Rawlinson David Carr Tom Rockmore Edward S. Casey Calvin O. Schrag Hubert L. Dreyfus Reiner Schürmann Don Ihde Charles E. Scott David Farrell Krell Thomas Sheehan Lenore Langsdorf Robert Sokolowski Alphonso Lingis Bruce W. Wilshire David Wood

4 Martin Heidegger The Event Translated by Richard Rojcewicz Indiana University Press Bloomington and Indianapolis

5 This book is a publication of Indiana University Press 601 North Morton Street Bloomington, Indiana USA iupress.indiana.edu Telephone orders Fax orders Published in German as Martin Heidegger, Gesamtausgabe 71: Das Ereignis. Edited by Friedrich-Wilhelm v. Herrmann 2009 by Vittorio Klostermann, Frankfurt am Main English translation 2013 by Indiana University Press All rights reserved No part of this book may be reproduced or utilized in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or by any information storage and retrieval system, without permission in writing from the publisher. The Association of American University Presses Resolution on Permissions constitutes the only exception to this prohibition. The paper used in this publication meets the minimum requirements of the American National Standard for Information Sciences Permanence of Paper for Printed Library Materials, ANSI Z Manufactured in the United States of America Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data Heidegger, Martin, [Ereignis. English] The event / Martin Heidegger ; translated by Richard Rojcewicz. pages cm. (Studies in continental thought) Translated from German. ISBN (cloth : alk. paper) ISBN ( electronic book) 1. Events (Philosophy) 2. Ontology. I. Rojcewicz, Richard, translator. II. Title. B3279.H48E dc

6 Contents Translator s Introduction xix Forewords Sophocles, Oedipus at Colonus, vv This presentation does not describe and report The destiny of beyng devolves upon the thinkers The dispensation of beyng in the event toward the beginning Not only throughout all the world In regard to Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) xxiii xxiii xxiii xxiv xxiv xxiv I. The first beginning A. The first beginning ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ 1. The first beginning 3 2. Ἀλήθεια ἰδέα 4 3. Errancy 5 4. Ἀλήθεια (Plato) 5 5. ἕν out of οὐσία 6 6. Truth and being for the Greeks (Said and unsaid) 6 7. ἀ-λήθεια 6 8. Ἀλήθεια and space and time 7 9. Ἀλήθεια and the first beginning (φύσις) ἀ-λήθεια In the first beginning Truth and the true Unconcealedness φύσις ἀλήθεια beyng Ἀ-λήθεια and the open Truth and beyng ΑΛΗΘΕΙΑ Truth and beyng On the question of truth The moment of consolidation ἀλήθεια ἰδέα Truth and being ἀγαθόν How ἀλήθεια 14

7 vi Contents 25. To say simply How ἀλήθεια ταὐτόν ταὐτόν How νοῦς λόγος ψυχή How to come to steadfastness now for the first time One cannot The ground of the transformation of the essence of truth φύσις ἀλήθεια φύσις the emergence that goes back into itself Ἀλήθεια ὁμοίωσις Beyng and the human being The beyngs of beyng The first beginning The experience of the disentanglement in the first beginning τὸ ἕν τὸ ταὐτόν ἀλήθεια The experience of the first beginning The first beginning For the interpretation Beyng is 23 B. Δόξα 45. From ἀλήθεια φύσις to the ἰδέα over δόξα δόξα gleam, shine, radiance τὰ δοκοῦντα The provenance of δόξα ἀλήθεια δόξα Parmenides δόξα δόξα and τὰ δοκοῦντα γίνεσθαι ὄλλυσθαι 27 C. Anaximander 54. If the ἄπειρον of Anaximander were ἀλήθεια? The transition τὸ πέρας τὸ ἄπειρον ἀδικία In the dictum of Anaximander The utterance of being 30

8 Contents vii D. Western thinking Reflexion Da-seyn 60. Thoughtful thinking and the concept Why nothing comes forth in thinking (as philosophy ) The beginning of Western thinking To think about thinking The beginning of thinking Philosophy thinking being Tradition out of the essence of historiality History and historiology 37 E. Under way toward the first beginning The preparation for the thinking of beyng in its historicality So as to remain on the bridge 68. Key words with respect to being To arrive at the domain of the disposition The transition The collapse of Ἀλήθεια out of the global mountain range; the beginning of the destiny of being. 40 F. The first beginning 72. The time is coming Truth and cognition On the presentation of the first beginning The essence of being in the first beginning Recollection into the first beginning φύσις and the first beginning What does not yet begin in the first beginning The first beginning and its inceptuality The first beginning as Ἀλήθεια In the first beginning The thinkers of the first beginning The first beginning The interpretation of the first beginning In regard to the interpretation of the first beginning The interpretative recollection Procedure The obvious objection Anaximander and Heraclitus 53

9 viii Contents 90. Anaximander and Parmenides Heraclitus and Parmenides 54 G. The first beginning 92. The first beginning. ἀλήθεια To show the first (beginning) The concealed ineffability of the first beginning The first beginning The first beginning Not all thinkers at the start The first beginning The first beginning 57 H. The advancement of the first beginning into the start of metaphysics 100. Ἀλήθεια ὀρθότης The advancement out of the first beginning Presence, constancy, rigidity φύσις ἰδέα 58 II. The resonating A. The resonating Vista 104. The resonating The resonating The resonating The history of beyng The resonating The first resonating is that of the passing by The resonating 66 B. The signs of the transition The passing by The in-between of the history of beyng 111. Signs of being in the age of the consummation of metaphysics The errancy of the errant star as the in-between of the passing by The essence of truth in the passing by The unavoidable 69

10 Contents ix 115. The demise of metaphysics; the transition The passing by The passing by The passing by The passing by The resonating The overcoming of metaphysics 73 C. Modernity and the West 122. The demise of metaphysics; the transition to the first beginning God-lessness experienced in terms of the history of beyng The consummation of modernity The passing by The time of the thinking of the history of beyng The will to willing The errancy of machination The essence of modernity Modernity and the West The West and Europe The West and Europe Abandonment by being; the West The West The West World-history and the West Certainty, security, establishment, calculation, and order Devastation The inceptuality of the beginning; beyng 86 D. Metaphysics The episode between the first beginning and the other beginning The transition (its signs) 140. Metaphysics Metaphysics Beginning and advancement Metaphysics and beyng How and in what sense Metaphysics The demise of metaphysics in the will to willing 89

11 x Contents 147. Essence and being The end of metaphysics; world-picture The consummation of metaphysics Steadfastness within the beginning Being Order and the forgottenness of being The end of metaphysics; reflection The last remnants of the demise of philosophy in the age of the consummation of metaphysics Forgottenness of being Being as machination Being as the non-sensory Metaphysics: Kant and Schelling Hegel Truth as certainty Biological life (Nietzsche) Metaphysics The demise of metaphysics The saying 97 E. The will to willing 164. Being in metaphysics The will to willing The will to willing 99 III. The difference 167. Beyng Introduction The difference (Outline) The difference and nothingness The difference and the event The difference The difference The difference and the understanding of being The differentiation The differentiation and the difference Negativity and no-saying Nothingness 113

12 Contents xi IV. The twisting free 179. Outline The history of beyng The history of beyng The conjuncture of beyng The conjuncture of beyng 122 V. The event The vocabulary of its essence 184. The event. The vocabulary of its essence The treasure of the word 145 VI. The event 186. The event. Outline The appropriating event Event and compassion Beginning and the appropriating event Event and domain of what is proper Event and fate The appropriating event is incursion Event experience To show to eventuate 156 VII. The event and the human being 195. The event and the human being The event The human being The event The event; the human being as understood with respect to the history of beyng, i.e., with respect to historiality The event and the human being The event and the human being The event and the human being Being and death What cannot be experienced of the beginning The beginning and the human being Beyng and the human being The beginning and the human being The human being and being 170

13 xii Contents 208. Being and the human being Beyng and the human being Beyng and the human being The simple experience Being and the human being 171 VIII. Da-seyn 212. Da-sein. Outline Da-seyn Da-sein Da-sein Da-sein All beyng is Da-seyn Dasein (history of the word) Da and Da-sein The clearing and its semblant emptiness The simple and the desolate In Da-sein Da-sein Beyng as Da-seyn The temporal domain of godlessness with respect to the history of beyng (experienced godlessness) Da-sein illuminates Da-sein and openness 180 A. The human being as understood with respect to the history of beyng and Da-seyn (steadfastness) 228. Steadfastness The nobility of indigence Steadfastness Steadfastness in Da-sein Knowledge The event and historial humanity The nobility of humans and their indigence in the history of beyng The event and the human being The open realm of concealment Steadfastness and the clearing of the there The incomparable 185

14 Contents xiii B. Da-seyn Time-space Da-sein and reflexion Steadfastness and disposition 239. Reflexion Da-sein space 186 C. Disposition and Da-sein The pain of the question-worthiness of beyng 241. Disposition Disposition The disposition of thinking is the voice of beyng Downgoing and its disposition Da-sein and thanking The basic dispositions of the history of beyng The basic dispositions of the history of beyng Predisposition Voice, disposition, feelings 192 IX. The other beginning 250. In what does the essential unity of event and beginning dwell? The counter-turn in the event and the beginning The beginning The beginning The last god 197 X. Directives to the event A. The enduring of the difference (distinction) Experience as the pain of the departure 255. Pain experience knowledge Experience The pain of the enduring Enduring as thanking The enduring of the difference Inceptual thinking is abyssal thinking Beyng is experienced The question: In what way? The thinking of the history of beyng says beyng 208

15 xiv Contents 264. Enduring and questioning The question-worthiness of beyng The essence of experience The question-worthiness of beyng Founding and enduring 210 B. The thinking of the history of beyng The enduring of the difference (distinction) The care of the abyss The timber trail Thinking and the word 267. The thinking of the history of beyng The thinking of the history of beyng The thinking of the history of beyng in the transition The thinking of the history of beyng The thinking of the history of beyng. The thoughtful word The thinking of the history of beyng The event Thinking The discrepancy in the priority of presentation The beginning inexperience The inconsolable departure The thinking of the history of beyng; the concept Inceptual thinking The enduring of the difference Thinking as enduring The enduring The gainsaying in the saying of the event The timber trail Beginning and immediacy Inceptual thinking in its origination out of metaphysics If being bends toward itself the track of mankind The thinking of beyng Thinking and words Beyng thinking 227

16 Contents xv C. Toward a first elucidation of the basic words Truth (With regard to: The saying of the first beginning) The essence and the essential occurrence History and historiality a. The essence and the essential occurrence 291. Beyng and essence 228 b. History 292. Terminology History is historiality The essence of historiality History History Overcoming, transition, beginning The history of being Space and time History and historiology Going under 234 XI. The thinking of the history of beyng (Thinking and poetizing) A. The experience of that which is worthy of questioning The leap The confrontation The clarification of action The knowledge of thinking 302. Guiding notions The thinking of the history of beyng is the inceptual experience of the twisting free of beyng The first step of inceptual thinking The knowledge of thinking How the thoughtful thinking of beyng is a thanking The thinking of the history of beyng is the non-transitory departure of beyng The thinking of beyng The all-arousing, constant experience of the thinking of the history of beyng Thoughtful grounding as exposition of the ground. Grounding and experience. To remain in the most proper law of thinking The thoughtful assertion 244

17 xvi Contents 312. The thinking of the history of beyng with regard to the beginning Thoughtful saying and its claim The word The leap The clarification of what is to be done Critique 249 B. The beginning and heedfulness 318. The experience of the beginning Experience Markings and heedfulness On heedfulness On heedfulness Heedfulness Heedfulness Forgottenness of being The forgottenness of being The forgottenness of being; heedfulness Being and beings Beginning and being The decision 254 C. The saying of the beginning 331. The word, metaphysics, and the beginning The word of inceptual thinking The thinking of the history of beyng and the demand for univocity, non-contradiction, non-circularity, and comprehensibility Within the first attempt at the thinking of the history of beyng The saying of the beginning The saying of the beginning The saying of the beginning The inceptual claim of the beginning Inceptual thinking Beginning as ἀρχή; inceptual thinking Beginning and recollection The saying of the beginning 262

18 Contents xvii D. Thinking and knowing Thinking and poetizing 343. Poetizing Thinking To be greeted; Da-sein The transition Poetizing and thinking Thinking and poetizing Silence and saying Thanking Essential thinking Essential thinking Thinking and poetizing Admission and steadfastness Admission and detachment The shyness in the beginning Thinking Thanking and silence Thinking and thanking Thanking and beyng Appropriating event and thanking Thinking Thinking and cognition Thinking 275 E. Poetizing and thinking 364. Poetizing and thinking Thinking and poetizing 278 F. The poet and the thinker 366. Poetizing and thinking The truth of Hölderlin s poetry The first and most extreme separation of thinking and poetizing Thinking and poetizing Poetizing and thinking Poetizing and thinking The thanking of the renunciation is thoughtful thanking With respect to the history of beyng, the future essence of the poet and the thinker Poetizing and thinking in their relation to the word 289

19 xviii Contents 375. One thinker and another 289 G. Commentary and interpretation a. Thinking with respect to Hölderlin. Interpretation 376. Hölderlin The interpretation of Hölderlin Interpretations of Hölderlin Thinking about Hölderlin The interpretation of Hölderlin within the other thinking 292 b. Commentary and interpretation 381. Commentary Commentary and interpretation Comments The comments Comments The interpretation 296 Editor s Afterword 297 German English Glossary 301 English German Glossary 307

20 Translator s Introduction This is a translation of Martin Heidegger s Das Ereignis. The German original was composed in and was published posthumously in 2009 as volume 71 of the author s Gesamtausgabe ( Complete Edition ). The book is the sixth in a series of seven reflections inaugurated by the decisive Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event). At the heart of all these reflections is what Heidegger calls the event, and the title of the present volume thus indicates its close connection to Contributions and its centrality to Heidegger s path of thinking. As with the other members of the series, the current volume fits within the third division of the Gesamtausgabe: Unpublished treatises: addresses ponderings. The operative words here are unpublished and ponderings. This is not a polished treatise, composed with didactic intent. It is a private pondering, never intended for publication. Thus, with regard to form, the book is replete with the partial sentences and cryptic passages that could be expected when thinkers write for themselves. Moreover, as to content, the pondering stems from a view of pondering or thinking radically at odds with the traditional understanding of these as representation in concepts. For Heidegger, our ordinary calculative, grasping (con-ceptual) way of thinking actually leads to thoughtlessness. Accordingly, Today thinking must think in a startling way so as to jolt humans for the very first time into the passion of thinking ( 274). We are here privileged to look over Heidegger s shoulder as he takes up his pen in this startling way, although in view of both form and content no one should expect the going to be easy. My general strategy in translating this book was the same as that employed with regard to Contributions: to capture in English the effect the original would have on a native speaker of German. Therefore I made no attempt to resolve the grammatical peculiarities, nor did I impose on Heidegger s terminology the extraordinary sense the ordinary words (such as event ) do eventually assume. This translation is meant to hold that sense open to readers and to invite them into the task of disclosure, but it is ultimately incumbent on the reader himself or herself to decide what that sense is. I have kept my interpolations to a minimum, and these are always placed within brackets. Braces ({}) are reserved for remarks by the editor. I have compiled German English and English German glossaries for the central vocabulary of the book. Heidegger does appeal