Ep 116: What Is the Actual?

Ep 119: A Net-Rending God

We read sections 140-142 of Heidegger’s Contributions. Here is discussed the event that oscillates in itself, the reciprocal grounding of Dasein and beyng, the last god self-suspended in the abyss of time-space to rend the net of events that beyng remain unique and divine, and the extinguishing of the great fire. Then, in the wake...

Ep 118: Resumption into the Strife

We read section 139 of Heidegger’s Contributions, of beyng essentially occurring while beings are, of the full historical carrying out of inceptual thinking, and of the conflictual domain of strife in which beyng has been covered over by presence as paradigmatic for the interpretation of beings. We then discuss how liberalism is an obsessive flight...

Ep 117: Understanding as Projection

We read sections 137 and 138 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). Herein is discussed the fact that beyng is not some accessory to being, that beyng is not knowable through presencing, and that understanding is the opposite of an I-subject and its lived experiences, but is instead the self coming to itself in...

Ep 116: What Is the Actual?

We read all of section 136 in which Heidegger discusses the relationship between beyng and being, highlighting the disposition of restraint by Dasein against its availability to the gods, the role of the actual, and the “privileged now” theory of time of the first beginning and the other beginning’s concept of memory, preparedness, and a...

Ep 115: Beyond the Transcendental

In sections 134 and 135 we read about how the “relation” between Dasein and beyng is in a sense not a relation at all, at least not in the way subject/object is. Beyng essentially occurs via an appropriation of Dasein, so they exist in a dynamic interplay. From here we discuss the liberal aversion to...