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Engaging the development of Heidegger's non-public writings on the event between 1936 and 1941, Daniela Vallega-Neu reveals what Heidegger's private writings kept hidden. Vallega-Neu takes readers on a journey through these volumes, which are not philosophical works in the traditional sense as they read more like fragments, collections of notes, reflections, and expositions. In them, Vallega-Neu sees Heidegger searching for a language that does not simply speak about being, but rather allows a sense of being to emerge in his thinking and saying. She focuses on striking shifts in the tone and movement of Heidegger's thinking during these important years. Skillfully navigating the unorthodox and intimate character of these writings, Vallega-Neu provides critical insights into questions of attunement, language, the body, and historicity in Heidegger's thinking.


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HEIDEGGER S POIETIC WRITINGS
STUDIES IN CONTINENTAL THOUGHT
John Sallis, editor
Consulting Editors
Robert Bernasconi
John D. Caputo
David Carr
Edward S. Casey
David Farrell Krell
Lenore Langsdorf
James Risser
Dennis J. Schmidt
Calvin O. Schrag
Charles E. Scott
Daniela Vallega-Neu
David Wood
HEIDEGGER S POIETIC WRITINGS
From Contributions to Philosophy to The Event
Daniela Vallega-Neu
Indiana University Press
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2018 by Daniela Vallega-Neu
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Library of Congress Cataloging-in-Publication Data
Names: Vallega-Neu, Daniela, 1966- author.
Title: Heidegger s poietic writings : from contributions to philosophy to the event / Daniela Vallega-Neu.
Description: 1st [edition]. | Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2018. | Series: Studies in Continental thought | Includes bibliographical references and index.
Identifiers: LCCN 2017037201 (print) | LCCN 2017053046 (ebook) | ISBN 9780253032140 (e-book) | ISBN 9780253032133 (cloth : alk. paper)
Subjects: LCSH: Heidegger, Martin, 1889-1976.
Classification: LCC B3279.H49 (ebook) | LCC B3279.H49 V274 2018 (print) | DDC 193-dc23
LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2017037201
ISBN 978-0-253-03388-8 (pbk.)
ISBN 978-0-253-03389-5 (MOBI)
ISBN 978-0-253-03391-8 (ePub)
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In memory of my father ,
Helmut Neu (1920-1986)
Contents
Preface
Acknowledgments
Key to Heidegger s Gesamtausgabe (When Applicable, with English Translation)
1 Introduction to Heidegger s Poietic Writings: The Regress to the Source
2 Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event) (GA 65)
3 Attunement and Grounding: A Critical Engagement with Heidegger s Contributions to Philosophy (Of the Event ) (GA 65)
4 Besinnung ( Mindfulness ) (GA 66)
5 Heidegger and History: A Critical Engagement with Heidegger s Besinnung (GA 66), Die Geschichte des Seyns (GA 67), and the Black Notebooks
6 ber den Anfang ( On Inception ) (GA 70)
7 Hovering in Incipience: A Critical Engagement with Heidegger s ber den Anfang ( On Inception ) (GA 70)
8 The Event (GA 71)
9 At the Brink of Language: A Critical Engagement with Heidegger s The Event (GA 71)
Conclusion
Bibliography
Index
Preface
T HIS BOOK TRACES and engages critically the development of Heidegger s nonpublic writings on the event between 1936 and 1942. Heidegger held these manuscripts as well as the notorious Black Notebooks (another series of nonpublic writings) hidden from the public and directed that they be published as part of his collected works only after all his lecture courses had been published. The first of the nonpublic writings of the event is Beitr ge zur Philosophy (Vom Ereignis) ( Contributions to Philosophy ) and is considered by many to be Heidegger s second major work after Being and Time . It appeared in German in 1989 and was first translated into English in 1989 and then again in 2012. The following volumes Besinnung ( Mindfulness ), Die Geschichte des Seins ( The History of Beyng ), ber den Anfang ( On Inception ), and Das Ereignis ( The Event ) were published in German between 1997 and 2009 and were translated into English between 2006 and now. The last volume of the series ( Stege des Anfangs ), dating to 1944, has not yet been published in German.
These volumes are not philosophical works in the traditional sense and read more like collections of notes, reflections, and expositions that are uneven in character, ranging from outlines and fragments to more elaborated developments of topics. In them, Heidegger searches for a language that would not simply speak about being but rather let a sense of being emerge in his thinking and saying. He attempts to open paths of thinking the occurrence of being in its historicality in terms of the event and to evoke a transformation of the sense of being in the West in order to prepare what he calls the other beginning. This is why I call them Heidegger s poietic writings, with reference to the Greek word , which means, to bring forth. In Germany, these writings are usually called Heidegger s seynsgeschichtliche Abhandlungen ( treatises pertaining to the historicality of beyng ) but they are far from treatises in any conventional sense.
The sense of being that Heidegger seeks to evoke is without ground; it cannot be explained but may only be performatively understood (i.e., in the undergoing of this very sense of being in thinking). It escapes a thinking in terms of activity or passivity, subject and object. It might be thought as in some ways close to what resonates in the short poem Der Cherbinische Wandersmann [The cherubinic pilgrim] by the mystic Angelus Silesius: The rose is without why ; it blooms because it blooms ; only that Heidegger s sense of being in transition from metaphysics to the other beginning, includes also (especially up to the end of the 1930s) a sense of loss marked by shock or horror. What he calls the truth of beyng thus harbors an abyssal dimension that is for Heidegger at the same time revelatory in terms of other, fuller possibilities of being.
There are other nonpublic texts that Heidegger wrote at the same time, other notes that often take the form of attempts at thinking and engaging his times critically in view of his understanding of being as historical event. To them belong the Black Notebooks (that bear, among others, the titles Considerations and Notes ) that received and are still receiving major attention also outside academia, mainly because of a number of disturbing anti-Semitic remarks they contain. To the nonpublic writings belong as well two volumes of notes-roughly 1,480 pages-under the title Concerning the Thinking of the Event . Even if what I call Heidegger s poietic writings are to be distinguished from the Black Notebooks (the former are more strictly attempts at uncovering the most hidden aspects of historical being, whereas the latter contain far more polemical reflections on what Heidegger saw happening around him), there are some overlaps between them. Thus an engagement with Heidegger s poietic writings requires, at least to some extent, an engagement with the Black Notebooks as well.
In this book, I show how between the first and last published volumes of the poietic writings, all written shortly before and during World War II, striking shifts happen in the tonality and movement of Heidegger s thinking. In these years, a shift occurs from a more Nietzschean pathos in which Heidegger seeks an empowerment of being, to a more mystical attitude in which he seeks to be responsive to and follow what he calls the silent call of being. At the same time, there are shifts in conceptuality and in the directionality of thought. Heidegger moves more and more away from the primacy of human being such that the origin of language is sought in historical beyng (written with a y to mark a more original sense of being). Thinking first comes to itself out of what is assigned to it in the word of (in the sense of belonging to) beyng. Especially the last published volumes of the poietic writings read like meditative exercises that abound with repetitive word-sound variations at the brink of the sayable. Heidegger meditates, directed toward silence and concealment, following attunements that he understands to arise from and to disclose historical beyng. Along with the shift in tonality a shift occurs as well in his attitude toward what he understands to be the last epoch of metaphysics (i.e., our epoch).
Heidegger s attempt at evoking a more primordial sense of being is necessitated (in his view) by what he calls the abandonment of beings by being that marks the way being occurs in metaphysics. In his reading, the history of being has evolved in the West in such a way that our relation to things and events is more and more predisposed by machination ( Machenschaft ), that is, by makeability and calculability, and by lived experience ( Erlebnis ), that is, by the integration of everything into a nongenuine and subjectively oriented sense of life. Machination and especially lived experience are so dominant in our epoch that Heidegger sees the possibility of a deeper questioning of being to be in danger of disappearing. It is striking that, whereas in the earlier poietic writings Heidegger s stance toward the machinational deployment of being in our times is one of resistance, in the later poietic writings his stance changes: instead of resisting machination and the abandonment of beings by being, he lets them pass by.
In my book I not only trace the shifts in tonality, conceptuality, and the movement of thought in Heidegger s poietic writings. Their unorthodox and intimate character also warrants an approach that differs from that required for traditional philosophical texts. I am separating, therefore, a more expository approach to the texts from a freer, more intimate, and also more critical engagement with them. I have, thus, expository or interpretative chapters in which I attempt to give the reader some structures for navigating these difficult texts, and in which I explain as much as possible some main concepts. A chapter in which I explore more freely various themes and issues

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