Abstract

In his inaugural lecture, Heidegger declares that “the idea of ‘logic’ itself disintegrates into the turbulence of a more original questioning” (Wegmarken [Pathmarks], ed. William McNeil [Cambridge University Press, 1998], 117/92). The question pursued in this questioning is that of the meaning of Being (Sein), the Seinsfrage. As an indication of what we are seeking, Heidegger writes in Being and Time: “In the question which we are to work out, what is asked about is Being—that which determines entities as entities, that on the basis of which entities are already understood, however we may discuss them in detail” (Sein und Zeit [Being and Time], trans. John Macquarrie and Edward Robinson [Harper & Row, 1962], 6... Read More.