‘Boredom: Between existence and history’: On heidegger's pivotal the fundamental concepts of metaphysics

Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 145-158

  de Beistegui, Miguel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

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EID: 61249198144     PISSN: 00071773     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00071773.2000.11007291     Document Type: Article

References (12)

1. Metaphysische Anfangsgründe der Logik im Ausgang von Leibniz, Gesamtausgabe Band 26, edited by Klaus Held, (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1978), 196–202. Translated by Michael Heim as The Metaphysical Foundations of Logic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1984), 154–9.
2. In addition to the works already mentioned, see “Was ist Metaphysik?” in Wegmarken (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1978), 103–21. Translated by David Farrell Krell as “What is Metaphysics?” in Basic Writings, edited by David Farrell Krell, (New York: Harper & Row, 1977), 95–112; “Vom Wesen des Grundes” in Wegmarken, 123–73. Translated by Terence Malick as The Essence of Reasons (Evanston: Northwestern University Press, 1969); Die Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik: Welt, Endlichkeit, Einsamkeit, edited by von Wilhelm Herrmann, (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1983). Translated by William McNeill and Nicholas Walker as The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1995).
3. Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik, Gesamtausgabe Band 3, edited by von Wilhelm-Friedrich Herrmann, (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann. 1991). Translated by Richard Taft as Kant and The Problem of Metaphysics (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1990).
4. The following articles address Heidegger's lecture course in some aspect or other: Parvis Emad, “Boredom as Limit and Disposition” in Heidegger Studies, volume 1, 1985, pp. 63–78; R.J.A., van Dijk, “Grundbegriffe der Metaphysik. Zur formalanzeigenden Struktur der philosophischen Begriffe bei Heidegger” in Heidegger Studies, volume 7, 1991, pp. 89–109; William McNeill, “Metaphysics, Ontology, Methodology” in Heidegger Studies, volume 8, 1992, pp. 63–79.
5. Grundfragen der Philosophie: Ausgewählte “Probleme” der “Logik”, Gesamtausgabe Band 45, edited by Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, (Frankfurt am Main: Vittorio Klostermann, 1984). Translated by Richard Rojcewicz and André Schuwer as Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected Problems of Logic (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 1994).
6. I have tried to trace these motifs and their economy in a chapter of my recent Dystopias: Heidegger and the Political (Routledge, 1998) entitled “The Free Use of the National”.
7. One can only remain perplexed before Heidegger's choice of historical references (Ludwig Klages, Oswald Spengler, Max Scheler, Leopold Ziegler), which he captures, all too easily perhaps, under the name “philosophy of culture”: Why these? Why only four? Why only German? True, if Heidegger considers this Kulturphilosophie, it is only to dismiss it instantly, precisely as that type of philosophy which is unable to distinguish between Zeitgeist and Grundstimmung. Yet it is precisely this ‘philosophy’ that provides him with his clue, and ultimately with his diagnosis concerning the Stimmung of the time.
8. Mais parmi les chacals, les panthères, les lices, Les singes, les scorpions, les vautours, les serpents, Les monstres glapissants, hurlants, grognants, rampants, Dans la ménagerie infâme de nos vices.
9. Il en est un plus laid, plus méchant, plus immonde! Quoiqu'il ne pousse ni grands gestes ni grands cris, Il ferait volontiers de la terre un débris Et dans un bâillement avalerait le monde;
10. C'est l'Ennui!—l'oeil chargé d'un pleur involontaire, Il rêve d'échafauds en fumant son houka. Tu le connais, lecteur, ce monstre délicat,—Hypocrite lecteur,—mon semblable,—mon frère!
11. Charles Baudelaire, “Au lecteur” in Les Fleurs du Mal.
12. “Überwindung der Metaphysik,” in Vorträge und Aufsätze (Pfullingen: Günther Neske, 1954).