S&Z's closing aporia (§83, H. 437) is the source of the *Kehre*, not a repudiation — the post-Kehre texts re-attempt the same gap from the Sein-side
ID: closing-aporia-as-source-of-the-kehre Title: S&Z's closing aporia (§83, H. 437) is the source of the Kehre, not a repudiation — the post-Kehre texts re-attempt the same gap from the Sein-side Status: live Confidence: medium Claim type: genealogical / corrective Created: 2026-05-21 Updated: 2026-05-21 Sources: heidegger-1927-sein-und-zeit, heidegger-1962-zeit-und-sein, heidegger-1964-end-of-philosophy Wiki homes: task-of-thinking, lichtung, ereignis, kehre
Claim
S&Z's closing two questions (§83, H. 437: "Führt ein Weg von der ursprünglichen Zeit zum Sinn des Seins? Offenbart sich die Zeit selbst als Horizont des Seins?") name the unbridgeable gap the unwritten third Abschnitt ("Zeit und Sein") was to traverse. The Kehre is not a repudiation of S&Z but a re-attempt at this gap from the other direction: where S&Z moves from Dasein toward Sein, the post-Kehre texts move from Sein/Ereignis toward Dasein. The 1962 lecture's title "Zeit und Sein" is the explicit re-attempt.
Evidence
- heidegger-1927-sein-und-zeit — §83 final questions (H. 437): the two questions that close the published text name the passage from originary time to the meaning of Being, and ask whether time itself reveals itself as the horizon of Being. These are the questions the unwritten Division I.3 ("Zeit und Sein") was to answer.
- heidegger-1962-zeit-und-sein — the 1962 lecture title "Zeit und Sein" is the explicit re-attempt at the missing S&Z division, now from the Sein-side rather than the Dasein-side.
- heidegger-1964-end-of-philosophy — passages on S&Z's incompleteness; the task of thinking is framed as what S&Z could not yet accomplish.
- The Protokoll's Stationen-framework (GA 14 pp. 33–66) explicitly names S&Z as the first station of Heidegger's path, not a discarded project.
Counterpressure / Limits
- The "Kehre-as-break" reading (Sheehan, early Rorty) treats the Kehre as a genuine abandonment of the S&Z project, not a re-approach. On this reading, the late Heidegger disowns the transcendental-horizonal framework rather than re-attempting it.
- The "aporia-as-source" reading depends on taking Heidegger's late self-interpretations at face value, which some scholarship (Thomä, Rockmore) contests as retrospective narrative-construction rather than reliable philosophical genealogy.
Payoff
If accepted, the wiki's Heidegger pages gain a principled architectonic that connects S&Z to the late corpus as one project with two approaches, rather than as a break. The task-of-thinking and ereignis pages would anchor this architectonic. The kehre page (if created) would frame the turn as directional reversal within one project rather than as abandonment.
Status History
- 2026-05-21 — created at live (from SuZ extraction-note Pass 3 Part D candidate 3). 3-test gate: T1 contestable (against Kehre-as-break readings from Sheehan, early Rorty); T2 anchored (§83 H. 437 verbatim + 1962 lecture title + Protokoll Stationen-framework + End of Philosophy on S&Z incompleteness); T3 counterpressure (Sheehan/Rorty break-reading + Thomä/Rockmore late-self-interpretation reliability concern).