The gift of presence is the property of Appropriating.įive pages later he wraps it up and gets to the crux. Logical classifications mean nothing here.įor as we think being itself and follow what is its own, Being proves to be destiny's gift of presence, the gift granted by the giving of time. What determines both, time and Being, in their own, that is, in their belonging together, we shallĬall: Ereignis, the event of Appropriation.Īppropriation is not a concept, but it does have properties.Īppropriation is not the encompassing general concept under which Being and time could be subsumed. In the sending of the destiny of Being, in the extending of time, there becomes manifest a dedication,Ī delivering over into what is their own, namely of Being as presence and of time as the realm of the Heidegger brings time and Being together in Ereignis.
That gift is thought and conceptualized from then on excluseively as Being with regard to beings. The latter withdraws in favor of the gift which It gives. In the beginning of Western thinking, Being is thought, but not the "It gives" as such. Heidegger intends to think time and Being in a way that hides in ordinary thinking. The relation is more fundamental than what is related. What is radically new and non-Metaphysical aboutĪppropriation is not only that it is an "activity"-a non-static process-Appropriation is non-metaphysical because in the relationship between man and Being as appropriated to each other, Appropriation does not designate a "realm"Īs does Being, but rather a relation, that of man and Being. Heidegger is groping his way out of metaphysics. In other words, the question is the same, but in "Time and Being" The word Being is simply too bogged down with metaphysical connotations.īut Heidegger still retains it in order to maintain the relation to his earlier formulation Terminologically speaking, this term begins to recede in favor of Heidegger's Appropriation,Ī term which has never before had a philosophical significance. In the introduction the translator says the following about Ereignis/Appropriation.īeing. The text was supplemented by Heidegger and the translator. "Time and Being" is a lecture delivered at the University of Freiburg on January 31, 1962. The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking.Summary of a Seminar on the Lecture 'Time and Being' - by Alfred Guzzoni.Translated by Joan Stambaugh, New York, Harper & Row, 1972.
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