The Emergency of Being: On Heidegger's Contributions to Philosophy

The Emergency of Being On Heidegger s Contributions to Philosophy The heart of history for Heidegger is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being including our being into a

The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue In emergency, being emerges from The Emergency of BeingThe esoteric Contributions to Philosophy, often considered Martin Heidegger s second main work after The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures that bring us into our own by making all being, including our being, into an urgent issue In emergency, being emerges from The Emergency of BeingThe esoteric Contributions to Philosophy, often considered Martin Heidegger s second main work after Being and Time, is crucial to any interpretation of his thought Here Heidegger proposes that being takes place as appropriation Richard Polt s independent minded account of the Contributions interprets appropriation as an event of emergency that demands to be thought in a future subjunctive mode Polt explores the roots of appropriation in Heidegger s earlier philosophy Heidegger s search for a way of thinking suited to appropriation and the implications of appropriation for time, space, human existence, and beings as a whole In his concluding chapter, Polt reflects critically on the difficulties of the radically antirationalist and antimodern thought of the Contributions.Polt s original reading neither reduces this challenging text to familiar concepts nor refutes it, but engages it in a confrontation an encounter that respects a way of thinking by struggling with it He describes this most private work of Heidegger s philosophy as a dissonant symphony that imperfectly weaves together its moments into a vast fugue, under the leitmotif of appro