A paradigm shift in Heidegger research

Continental Philosophy Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 183-202

  Sheehan, Thomas ^a  

^a STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

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EID: 51449110128     PISSN: 13872842     EISSN: 15731103     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1023/A:1017568025461     Document Type: Article

References (25)

1. Martin Heidegger, Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis), Gesamtausgabe Band 65 (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983), hereinafter GA 65;
2. E.T., Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning), tr. Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly (Bloomington and Indianapolis: Indiana University Press, 1999), hereinafter CP. In this essay I abbreviate the various volumes of Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe as GA plus the volume number. Citations frequently refer to texts by page and line. The line-count does not include either the "header" or any empty lines on the page, but does count the lines of section titles.
3. (New York and London: Columbia University Press, 1959), 235.23, 38. Compare "absolutely creative Dasein" (236.14).
4. William J. Richardson, Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought (The Hague: Nijhoff, 1963), hereinafter "Richardson."
5. Otto Pöggeler, Der Denkweg Martin Heideggers (Pfullingen: Neske, 1963);
6. ET Martin Heidegger's Path of Thinking, tr. Daniel Magurshak and Sigmund Barber (Atlantic Highlands, New Jersey: Humanities Press International, 1987).
7. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrman, Die Selbstinterpretation Martin Heideggers (Meisenheim am Glan: A. Hain, 1964).
8. William J. Richardson, "Martin Heidegger," in From Phenomenology to Thought, Errancy, and Desire, ed. Babette E. Babich, (Dordrecht: Kluwer, 1995), 621.17-19; hereinafter I abbreviate the book as "Babich."
9. The Complete Poems and Plays of T.S. Eliot, ed. Valerie Eliot (London: Faber and Faber, 1969), 206.
10. Medard Boss, "Zollikoner Seminare," in Erinnerungen an Martin Heidegger, ed. Günther Neske (Pfullingen: Neske, 1977), 39.19-32.
11. "Sein" appears only ten times in the essay's 647 lines: only three within the first 525 lines (115.20, 117.7, and 104.21), seven within the next twenty-three lines (119.30-120.17), and none in the remaining seventy-nine lines.
12. Martin Heidegger, Zur Sache des Denkens (Pfullingen: Neske, 1969), 44.6-7; hereinafter SD.
13. a 15. Lichtung is Heidegger's answer to Aristotle's νου̂ς ποιητ ικός in that text.
14. Heidegger explicitly rejects the interpretation of Lichtung as "lighting" or "lighting process": GA 15, 262.12-20 and 231.10-17; GA 68, 45.7, 11 and 51.2, 5. Cf. Frédérik de Towarnicki, À la rencontre de Heidegger: Souvenir d'un messager de la Forêt-Noire (Paris: Gallimard, 1993), 146-149.
15. Richardson, xxi..29 and SD 80.24. See "Die Lichtung lichtet" (GA 71, ms. 119.6) as an expression of the same thing.
16. GA 65, 325.28, 331.23, etc. Also GA 5, 40.1; GA 9, 184.11, 184.25, 185.29, 187.32, 188.21, etc.; GA 15, 415.11; GA 49, 56.31-32; Zollikoner Seminare, 9.6-10, 157.1, 157.30-32 188.15, etc.
17. Respectively (1) άλήθει α: Martin Heidgger, Lettre sur l'humanisme, 2nd edition, ed. and trans. Roger Munier (Paris: Aubier, 1964), 184.2: Heidegger's letter to Jean Beaufret, November 23, 1945;
18. Ereignis: Zollikoner Seminare, 242.13 (3) die Wahrheit des Seins selbst: GA 9, 336.27.
19. Jacob Grimm and Wilhelm Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch (Leipzig: Hirzel, 1854-1960[!]), sixteen volumes; vol. III (E-Forsche), 1862: "Eräugnen, Ereugnen, Ereignen," "Eräugnis," "Eräugnung," "Eräugung" at 699; "Ereigen" at 784-785; and "Ereignung" at 785.
20. See also Wolfgang Brokmeier, "Heidegger und die Suche nach dem Eigenen - Heidegger und wir-," in Ingeborg Schüssler et al., eds., Heidegger: Semaine de Chexbres, 1988 (Lausanne: Genos [Cahiers de Philosophie], 1992), 61-95, here, 89f., notes 3-5.
21. Also François Fédier, "Traduire les Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)" Heidegger Studies, 9 (1993), 15-34, esp. 32-33.
22. In his published work Heidegger refers in passing to this etymology in Identität und Differenz (Pfullingen: Neske, 1957), 24.21-25.1,
23. a passage that is omitted from the English translation by Joan Stambaugh, Identity and Difference (New York: Harper & Row Publishers, 1969), 36.14 .
24. Martin Heidegger, Was heißt Denken? (Tübingen: Niemeyer, 1954), hereinafter WD.
25. See Corinne Painter and Thomas Sheehan, "Choosing One's Fate," Research in Phenomenology, 9 (1999), 63-82, especially 70-71.