File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0104, message 32


Date: Fri, 13 Apr 2001 16:52:03 +0200
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
Subject: Re: Ge-lassen-heit


Cologne, Friday 13th Apr-2001

Jan Straathof schrieb Thu, 12 Apr 2001 23:18:51 +0100:

> Hi Michael, you wrote:
>
> >With regard to Gelassenheit, for instance, in the
> >environs of Heidegger's thinking we have to hear the prefix 'Ge-' as a
> >gathering, and the 'lassen' as a letting-be: a gathering of letting-be.
> >('Releasement' is way off.)
> >
> >Two natural examples from everyday German:
> >"Ich lasse mir etwas sagen." - "I am prepared to listen."
> >"Ich lasse mir etwas zeigen." - "I ask to be shown something."
>
> >The letting (lassen) here is in the form of a preparedness
> >(Bereitwilligkeit) or a questioning (Fragen), which are both kinds of
> >openness-toward. Lassen (let, allow) is close to 'zulassen' (allow,
> >permit, admit, let in) and related to 'entlassen' (let go, release,
> >dismiss). The core of this happening is a letting.
>
> this is clear, but what about the suffix "-heit" ?
>
> doesn't the use of this suffix indicate some form of reification
> or closure of the notion of "Gelassen" (its happening) ?
>
> [would it make sense to talk about "Lassenheit" ?]
>
> indeed, the word "Lassen" is a wild verb, and as such needs to be
> fixed on both sides !?

Hi Jan,
I wouldn't be too hard on the suffix that makes 'lassen' into a noun
substantive.
Being itself gathers, and language follows this gathering in defining what
is granted by being to come to stand, and even to stand of itself, i.e. like
a nomen substantivum. Even a verb like 'lassen' or 'let' is not innocent,
since it too defines and brings to a stand in the light of being.

Michael
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