Enigma variations: An interpretation of Heidegger's sein und zeit

Ratio

Volumn 15, Issue 2, 2002, Pages 154-175

  Critchley, Simon ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ESSEX   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 54349115535     PISSN: 00340006     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/1467-9329.00182     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. In this regard, see the interesting Beilagen to 'Das Wesen des Nihilismus', in Metaphysik und Nihilismus, Gesamtausgabe Vol.67 (Klostermann, Frankfurt a.M., 1999), pp. 259-67. See especially, p. 265-66, where Heidegger claims that the essence of nihilism in Sein und Zeit is located in the thought of das Verfallen, which is the condition of possibility for the surmounting (Überstieg) of that fallenness
2. Wittgenstein, Philosophical Investigations, trans. G.E.M. Anscombe (Blackwell, Oxford, 1958), no. 129
3. See Grimm, Deutsches Wörterbuch, Achter Band (Hirzel, Leipzig, 1893), pp. 194-95
4. The Oxford English Dictionary, Vol. XIII (Clarendon Press, Oxford, 1989)
5. Middle English Dictionary, Part Q (University of Michigan Press, Ann Arbor, 1984)
6. Eric Partridge, Origins. A Short Etymological Dictionary of Modern English (Routledge, London, 1958)
7. th edition (Klostermann, Frankfurt a.M., 1980), p. 65
8. Heidegger, Hölderlins Hymne 'Der Ister' (Klostermann, Frankfurt a.M., 1984). Subsequent page references given in the text
9. See 'Heidegger for Beginners', in Appropriating Heidegger, eds. J. Faulconer & M. Wrathall (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 2000), pp. 101-118
10. See Sheehan, 'Kehre and Ereignis. A Prolegomenon to Introduction to Metaphysics', unpublished typescript. Jean Beaufret, Entretiens avec Frédéric de Towarnicki (PUF, Paris, 1992), pp. 17, 26 & 28
11. Frank Cioffi, Wittgenstein on Freud and Frazer (Cambridge University Press, Cambridge, 1998), p. 243
12. On the question of the enigma of the everyday in Heidegger see Michel Haar, 'L'enigme de la quotidieneté', in Être et Temps de Martin Heidegger. Questions de méthode et voies de recherche, eds. J-P. Cometti & D. Janicaud (Sud, Marseille, 1989), pp. 213-25
13. See Löwith's essay in The Heidegger Controversy, ed. R.Wolin (MIT, Cambridge Mass., 1993)
14. To my mind, the systematic connection between fundamental ontology and national socialism was convincingly established by Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe in his 'Transcendence Ends in Polities', Typography (Harvard University Press, Cambridge Mass., 1989)
15. and also at greater length in his Heidegger, Art and Politics, trans. C. Turner (Blackwell, Oxford, 1990)
16. The same argument has been stated much more polemically and in extraordinary scholarly detail by Johannes Fritsche in Historical Destiny and National Socialism in Heidegger's Being and Time (University of California Press, Berkeley, 1999)
17. See Heidegger, Einführung in die Metaphysik (Niemeyer, Tübingen, 1953), p. 152
18. th July 1953, pp. 67-75
19. This line of thought is suggested by Jean-François Lyotard's remarkable posthumously published text, The Confession of Augustine (Stanford University Press, Stanford, 2000), pp. 55-57 & 70-74
20. Levinas responds directly to this passage in a remarkably sane and measured paper given at the hysterical height of the Heidegger affair in Paris in 1987, 'Mourir pour. . .', which translates Heidegger's 'Sterben für', in Heidegger. Questions ouvertes (Osiris, Paris, 1988), pp. 255-64
21. The theme of enigma is obviously central to Levinas work, in particular his 1965 essay 'Enigma and Phenomenon', in Emmanuel Levinas. Basic Philosophical Writings, eds. Peperzak et al. (Indiana University Press, Bloomington, 1996), pp. 65-77
22. On this topic, see Paul Ricoeur, 'La marque du passé', Revue de Métaphysique et de Morale, Janvier-Mars 1998, No. 1