This paper examines Heidegger’s lecture to the Bremen Club – delivered in 1953 – entitled Wer ist Nietzsche’s Zarathustra as the foreground for Heidegger’s notion of Augenblick in connection to the figure of Zarathustra and the concept of Eternal Return of the Same in the Nietzsche lectures – delivered in 1937. In these lectures Heidegger sums up his interpretation of Zarathustra as the figure whose task it is communicate the doctrine of the eternal return of the same and who therefore has as his particular task the explanation of the meaning of time. Heidegger cites repeated sayings of the eternal return. At the centre of the sayings is the passage referring to the riddle of the doorway named Augenblick. The question I shall endeavour to ask is: what is the eventuation of the Augenblick in the turn (Kehre) of the return (Wiederkehre)? I argue that the notion of Augenblick is key to Heidegger’s thinking of the turn and the understanding of the figure of Zarathustra as the return of the transcendence of Dasein. This connection becomes explicit through an exegesis of the different analogies delineated in the structure of the event of Augenblick – er-augen, Er-eignis – with Wieder-kehr/Wider-kunft.
Aleksandr Dugin is sometimes called “Putin’s brain,” and there can be no question that Putin’s global strategy for expanding Russian power has followed quite precisely a strategic plan created, published, and advocated by Dugin beginning in 1996. This aggressive plan of political destabilization, economic hostage-taking, and ultimately militaristic invasions has been defended with a philosophical patchwork called “the Fourth Political Theory.” Dugin claims his “National Bolshevism” can stand alongside communism, fascism, and liberalism as a genuine contender in ontology, the philosophy of history, and political philosophy; and that it is the only theory that stands in genuine opposition to neo-liberalism and corporate capitalism. I show that this view, built from a distortion of Heidegger’s idea of “human-being” as Dasein, is not a coherent philosophy or worldview. I contrast it with personalism, which has always opposed the very aspects of communism, fascism, and liberalism that Dugin opposes, and does so quite effectively and without militarism, expansionism, or the need to take the nation state as some final end of human political development.
Philosophy is hermeneutics. This statement by Martin Heidegger may be read as a call to practice philosophy in a new way and, therefore, to look critically at the whole philosophical tradition. But this new approach to philosophizing, different from the traditional one, implies different understanding of the essence of man. According to the author of Being and Time, the hermeneutical conception of humanity describes more adequately than any previous conceptions our factual experience of both ourselves and the surrounding reality. He strongly opposes it to the modern vision of subjectivity, which he derives from Descartes. This paper is an attempt at analyzing this opposition. Much attention is devoted to the examination of the general relationship between prevailing visions of reality and dominant views on the essence of man. In particular, I’m interested in the relationship, which is very important for Heidegger, between the scientific picture of the world and the modern conception subjectivity. I consider, too, the practical consequences of the prevalence of this particular image of humanity.
The language used by Heidegger awakens almost the same emotions as his thought. According to many, it is full of negligible neologisms, grammatical and syntactic traps that “work well” with the content. This is a negative assessment. For the Heidegger’s followers, his language demonstrates revolutionary properties, because it comes to its own limits, it removes the historical semantic falsehood, distancing it from that what really “is – exists”. In the article, I would like to guide the reader through the discovery of such a language. To do so, I will rely on a book titled “Contributions to Philosophy. (From the Enowing)” – a unique text in Heigegger’s works. Heidegger comes to the source of language, so he looks for what is at the base and focuses on the fundamental “is”. Man is a being who is conscious not only of who he is, but of man in particular, who has conscious that he is. The question of “being” constructs the whole essence-nature of man. This expresses the linguistic term Dasein, in which prefix Da means “here, now”, that is, in some “specificity” at some point in time and place, while Sein means being. So man becomes “being here” that is, he is aware that he is and exists in a concrete way in time and space in the world. The language allows him to identify with Sein and follow what is hidden. Language is not artificial in any way, it is not a product or a construct. It is the most natural source, the sounding language, but also the sounding to the end, until the very silence.
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