File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9808, message 37


Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 18:27:05 -0700
From: Mike Staples <mstaples-AT-argusqa.com>
Subject: Re: Henry


Hans Gruenig wrote:

> Late Heidegger tells us, "Being means:  presencing,
> letting-be-present:
> presence."  (Time & Being, 10)
>
> Does this confuse or clarify?

Well...uh...er... no... I wouldn't say that it clarifies things. From
Time & Being, page 7 of the Joan Stambaugh translation:


"But what gives us the right to characterize Being as presencing? This
question comes too late. For this character of Bing has long since been
decided without our contribution, let along our merit. Thus we are bound
to the characterization of Being as presencing."

Here, and a little later in the paragraph, Heidegger seems to bes
telling us that Being as presencing is "Ever since the beginning of
Western thinking with the Greeks...[and also]...holds true of the
thinking that directs the most modern technology and industry..."

"But..." she continues;

"... we do not by any means perceive Being as presencing exclusively,
primarily in the remembrance of the early presentation of the
unconcealment of Being accomplished by the Greeks."

It might help if you can refer me to the specific pararaph. Problem is
that I only have the Stambaugh translation of "On time and Being".


Michael S.




     --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---

   

Driftline Main Page

 

Display software: ArchTracker © Malgosia Askanas, 2000-2005