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• *Existenzial* vs. *Kategorial*

  In Sein und Zeit (1927), Heidegger draws a terminological distinction between two kinds of ontological determinations: Existenzialien (existentials) — determinations of the being-that-is-Dasein, i.e., of Existenz — and Kategorien (categori…

• *Rien* (Nancy)

  Nancy's philosophical use of French rien — etymologically from Latin rem (accusative of res, "thing"), via Old French where rien meant "something" rather than "nothing." For Nancy, le rien names the thing tending toward its pure being-a-th…

• *Seinsverlassenheit* / Abandonment of Being

  Heidegger's name for the abandonment of Being — a key motif of his later thought (esp. Contributions to Philosophy and the Letter on Humanism). Nancy retranslates it (délaissement de l'être) and gives it a double sense: (a) Being is left b…

• *Stimmung* / Attunement

  Stimmung (variously translated "attunement," "disposition," "mood") names the ontological condition under which beings-as-a-whole disclose themselves — not a psychological accompaniment to thought or action, but the Ge-stimmtheit (being-at…

• Absolute Knowing

  Absolutes Wissen — the standpoint achieved at the end of the Phenomenology of Spirit (Chapter VIII, §§788–808, raw lines 4691–4851). The journey's terminus: Geist knows itself as Geist; consciousness and self-consciousness have become iden…

• Aletheia / Unverborgenheit

  The Greek ἀ-λήθεια (un-concealment), translated by Heidegger hartnäckig (stubbornly) as Unverborgenheit — not for etymology's sake but für die Sache, der bedacht werden muß. Heidegger's most concentrated late treatment of Aletheia is in "D…

• Ambiguity and the Absolute Frank Chouraqui, 2014

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui Year: 2014 (Fordham University Press, Perspectives in Continental Philosophy series; ISBN 978-0-8232-5411-8; John D. Caputo, series editor) Type: Book (monograph)

• Anwesenlassen (the doubled letting-presence)

  Heidegger's cardinal late-Heidegger verbal noun for the inner sense of Anwesenheit — and the gate from the metaphysical Sein-Seiendes mode to the Ereignis-mode. Locus classicus: Zeit und Sein (1962) p. 5: "Sein, dadurch jegliches Seiende a…

• Augenblick

  The temporal-existential locus in which past and future converge in decision. Etymologically "blink-of-the-eye," the Augenblick is the moment of seeing-and-deciding — not a temporal point on a timeline but the Zeitlichkeit des Selbsthandel…

• Auseinandersetzung

  Heidegger's technical name for the proper mode of relation to a thinker. Distinct from interpretation, criticism, and refutation, Auseinandersetzung is "die höchste und einzige Weise der wahren Schätzung eines Denkers" — the highest and on…

• Being In and Toward the World

  Merleau-Ponty's signature formulation of the human being's relation to world — the être au monde of Phenomenology of Perception, translated by Donald Landes as "being in and toward the world" to capture the directional-inhabiting complexit…

• Beständigung des Werdens in die Anwesenheit

  Heidegger's climactic thesis on the essence of will to power: it is the Beständigung des Werdens in die Anwesenheit — the making-stand-fast of becoming into abiding presence. The phrase appears at the close of Der Wille zur Macht als Erken…

• Bildung

  Bildung — Pinkard renders as "cultural formation" or "cultural education" — is Hegel's term for the process by which the individual recapitulates the world-spirit's path and so becomes culturally formed-and-educated rationality. The concep…

• Brauch (late-Heidegger use/need of mortals by the Eignis)

  Heidegger's late-Heidegger term for the use / need that the Ereignis (the Eignis) exerts on the mortals, and that mortals owe to the Eignis. Locus classicus: Zeit und Sein (1962) marginalia (4) at p. 15 ("Brauchen"), (10) at p. 23 ("Brauch…

• Brief an Edmund Husserl vom 22. Oktober 1927 Martin Heidegger, 1927

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger (to Edmund Husserl) Year: 1927 (Meßkirch, 22 October 1927; published in Husserliana IX (1962) "Phänomenologische Psychologie" pp. 600 ff.; reissued GA 14, 2007) Type: notes (letter + three Anlagen: I Sachliche S…

• Circulus Vitiosus Deus: Merleau-Ponty's Ontology of Ontology Frank Chouraqui, 2016

  Author(s): Frank Chouraqui (Leiden University) Year: 2016 Type: Journal article (Studia Phaenomenologica XVI, pp. 469–487)

• Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe des Denkens (1964) Martin Heidegger, 1964

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1964 (this version: GA 14, 2007 — Klostermann edition with Heidegger's marginalia from his Handexemplar) Type: essay (originally Heidegger's contribution to the UNESCO Paris colloquium "Kierkegaard vivant,…

• Das Man (The They)

  Heidegger's name for the Wer (who) of everyday Dasein — not a sociological aggregate or "the masses" but an Existenzial: a structural-existential feature of how Dasein is. "Jeder ist der Andere und Keiner er selbst. Das Man, mit dem sich d…

• Dasein

  Heidegger's technical term — coined as a reiner Seinsausdruck (pure being-expression) — for the entity we ourselves each are, distinguished from all other entities by the fact that its own being is at issue for it. Dasein is not "human bei…

• Die Sache selbst

  Hegel's Phenomenology of Spirit (1807) Preface is the philological source of die Sache selbst — "the matter itself" / "the crux of the matter" / "what is at stake" — as a methodological imperative within German philosophy. Pinkard preserve…

• End of Philosophy (das Ende der Philosophie)

  Heidegger's late thesis: philosophy as metaphysics — from Plato through Hegel-Husserl-Nietzsche-Marx — has ended in the present age. The end is Vollendung, not cessation: a Versammlung in die äußerste Möglichkeit (gathering into outermost…

• Enteignis (Heidegger's expropriation belonging to the Ereignis)

  Heidegger's late-Heidegger term for the self-withdrawing that belongs to the Ereignis as such — not as a contingent privation but as the heart of the Eignis. Locus classicus: Zeit und Sein (1962) pp. 22–23: "Zum Ereignis als solchem gehört…

• Ereignis (Heidegger's advent of Being)

  Heidegger's late term — typically rendered "advent of Being" or "appropriating event" — for the non-causal event by which Being gives itself, ereignet sich, in a "vertical" history that does not unfold along the horizontal axis of cause an…

• Erregender Zwiespalt zwischen Wahrheit und Kunst

  The "agitating discord" between art and truth at the heart of Nietzsche's late metaphysics. Nietzsche himself names it in 1888: "Über das Verhältnis der Kunst zur Wahrheit bin ich am frühesten ernst geworden: und noch jetzt stehe ich mit e…

• Es gibt (the late-Heidegger Sprachgebrauch-shift)

  Heidegger's cardinal late-Heidegger Sprachgebrauch-shift: from "Sein ist / Zeit ist" to "Es gibt Sein / Es gibt Zeit." The shift is the gate to thinking Sein ohne das Seiende — Sein "without recourse to grounding from beings." Locus classi…

• Eternal Recurrence

  Nietzsche's thought that the same events will repeat, identically, an infinite number of times — first introduced in The Gay Science §341 (the "greatest weight") and developed through Thus Spoke Zarathustra, the notebooks, and Ecce Homo. N…

• Fold (Pli)

  Merleau-Ponty's figure for the ontological structure by which the multiple comes from the one without external cutting — the continuum of form and content that dissolves the dualism/monism dilemma. V&I Ch. 4 Section "Folds" (pp. ~139–141)…

• Ge-stell (Enframing)

  Heidegger's name for the Wesen der Technik — not technology as equipment but the mode of Being in which everything (including the human) shows up as Bestand (standing-reserve), available for ordering and optimization. The hyphenation Ge-st…

• Großer Stil

  Nietzsche's name, in his late writings, for the highest mode of artistic creation: not classicism, not romanticism, but mastery over a chaos that is one's own. Heidegger reads großer Stil in Nietzsche I I.14-15 as the form-giving counter-s…

• Heidegger as Silenced Interlocutor

  The philological-corrective thesis that MP's reading of Heidegger was archivally thin — and that the dominant "Heideggerian turn" reading of late MP projects backwards from late stylistic resonances onto a philosophical genesis that came f…

• How does MP's seinsgeschichte tension with Heidegger bear on the 1959→1961 reversal?

  The two are the same problem seen from opposite sides. In 1959 Merleau-Ponty anchors ontology in the "thick, opaque present" and refuses the Hegel/Marx/Nietzsche detour; by 1960–61 he gives a whole course on exactly that detour. The revers…

• Husserl at the Limits of Phenomenology Maurice Merleau-Ponty (ed. Leonard Lawlor with Bettina Bergo), 2002

  Author(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty; edited by Leonard Lawlor with Bettina Bergo Year: 2002 (course delivered 1959–60; notes preserved at Bibliothèque Nationale) Type: Course notes + editorial apparatus

• Identität und Differenz (GA 11) Martin Heidegger, 2006

  Author: Martin Heidegger · Year: 2006 (GA edition; texts 1949–1963) · Editor: Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann · Type: book (Sammelband)

• In Praise of Philosophy and Other Essays Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1970

  Author(s): Maurice Merleau-Ponty Year: 1970 (English combined edition; Part 1 original 1953, Part 2 original 1968) Type: Book (combined volume: inaugural lecture + course summaries)

• Inconscient primordial (Inconscient d'ek-stase)

  The late MP's term for a carnal unconscious that replaces — not supplements — consciousness as the operator of the être à la chose par l'intermédiaire du corps. Saint Aubert's reading (E&C II Ch VI) argues that the Notes sur le corps (1956…

• Intra-Ontology (Indirect Ontology)

  Merleau-Ponty's method-concept for an ontology that does not stand outside Being to describe it but operates within it — "Being in the beings." MP's formulation from the February 1959 V&I working note: "One cannot make a direct ontology. M…

• Is Cybernetics the Same Philosophical Enemy for Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty?

  Short answer. Both clauses of the question are partly true, but the or is too strong. Cybernetics (in Heidegger 1964) and pensée opératoire (in Merleau-Ponty 1960–61) target the same structural phenomenon — the reduction of beings to manip…

• Jean-Luc Nancy

  French philosopher (1940-2021), major figure in contemporary continental philosophy. Author of works on community (The Inoperative Community), the body (Corpus, Corpus II, Sexistence, Marquage manquant), art (The Muses, Noli me tangere, Ad…

• Kehre (the Turn)

  The Kehre names a structural reversal internal to the Sachverhalt of Sein und Zeit / Zeit und Sein — not a biographical change of standpoint in Heidegger's thinking but the turning within Being itself whereby the Vergessenheit (forgetfulne…

• Kybernetik as Grundwissenschaft

  Heidegger's 1964 thesis: Cybernetics is the new Grundwissenschaft (fundamental science) that determines and steers the dispersed sciences in the completed-philosophy age. Locus classicus: "Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe des Denke…

• Leitfrage and Grundfrage

  Heidegger's architectonic distinction between two questions of philosophy. The Leitfrage (guiding question) is "Was ist das Seiende?" — "What is the being?" — i.e., what makes a being a being? This question, given its decisive form by Aris…

• Lethe / Verbergung

  Heidegger's late name for the Sich-verbergen (self-concealing), Verborgenheit, that belongs to ἀ-λήθεια als das Herz — as the heart, not as a mere addition or like shadow to light. Locus classicus: "Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe…

• Letting-Be (laisser-être)

  Merleau-Ponty's name for the comportment that "lets the perceived world be rather than posits it" (VI 138/102) — the structural form of voyance applied to the philosophical object, and the "primordial unconsciousness" that is "the initial…

• Lichtung

  Heidegger's late name for the Offenheit (openness) — the free open — that grants any Scheinen (showing), any Zeigen (appearing), and any An- und Abwesendes (presencing or absence). Locus classicus: "Das Ende der Philosophie und die Aufgabe…

• Logos of the Sensible

  Merleau-Ponty's 1953-54 name — written in Greek script as Λόγος du monde sensible / Λόγος perceptif — for the pre-linguistic logos that the language-acquisition thesis of Le problème de la parole presupposes. The lived sensible already has…

• Machenschaft

  Heidegger's name for the mode of Being in the completed epoch of metaphysics — the form Seiendheit (beingness) takes when the Vollendung has installed Seinsverlassenheit (abandonment by Being) as the prevailing condition. Machenschaft is n…

• Martin Heidegger

  German philosopher (1889-1976). In Merleau-Ponty's Course Notes, Heidegger receives "the most rigorous, detailed, and explicit engagement" found anywhere in Merleau-Ponty's oeuvre (Course 1, Part II.B). Merleau-Ponty traces the passage fro…

• Mein Weg in die Phänomenologie (1963) Martin Heidegger, 1963

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1963 (contribution to the Festgabe Hermann Niemeyer zum achtzigsten Geburtstag am 16. April 1963, Privatdruck; reissued in Zur Sache des Denkens 1969 and in GA 14, 2007; the 1969 Nachtrag cites SuZ p. 38 o…

• Merleau-Ponty and Nancy on Sense and Being: At the Limits of Phenomenology Marie-Eve Morin, 2022

  Author(s): Marie-Eve Morin · Year: 2022 · Type: book

• Merleau-Ponty Between Philosophy and Symbolism: The Matrixed Ontology Rajiv Kaushik, 2019

  Author(s): Rajiv Kaushik Year: 2019 Type: book (SUNY Press, Contemporary Continental Philosophy)

• Metaphysische Grundstellung

  Heidegger's name for the structural form a metaphysical position takes within the Leitfrage-history. A Grundstellung is not a "viewpoint" or "doctrine" but the four-fold articulation by which a thinker takes a Stand (stance) within the una…

• Nietzsche I Martin Heidegger, 1961

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1961 (lectures: 1936/37, 1937, 1939; Vorwort: May 1961) Type: Lecture course (three courses; published Neske 1961, GA 6.1 ed. Brigitte Schillbach 1996)

• Nietzsche II Martin Heidegger, 1961

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1961 (compositions: 1939, 1940, 1941, 1944-46; published Neske 1961, GA 6.2 ed. Brigitte Schillbach 1997) Type: Hybrid (lecture course + Abhandlungen + genealogical sketches + methodological meditation)

• Onto-Theo-Logik (Onto-Theo-Logic)

  The onto-theo-logical constitution (onto-theo-logische Verfassung) names the inner structural form of all metaphysics: because Being shows itself as Grund (ground), metaphysics is simultaneously Onto-logik (grounding beings in general as S…

• Ontological Difference

  The distinction between Being (Sein, être) and beings (Seiende, étant), originating in Heidegger's philosophy and critically reworked by Merleau-Ponty. Being is not a supreme entity but "that which is not nothing" — the es gibt ("there is"…

• Paul Ricoeur

  French philosopher (1913–2005) of phenomenology and hermeneutics. In the wiki's corpus Ricoeur figures principally as: (a) the philosopher whose 1973 dictum "the philosophical basis of the major book of 1945 [Phenomenology of Perception] h…

• Phenomenology of Perception Maurice Merleau-Ponty, 1945

  Author: Maurice Merleau-Ponty Year: 1945 (this reading: Donald A. Landes translation, Routledge 2012, with Foreword by Taylor Carman and Claude Lefort's 1974 essay "Maurice Merleau-Ponty") Type: Book (Merleau-Ponty's Docteur ès lettres maj…

• Protokoll zu einem Seminar über den Vortrag »Zeit und Sein« (1962) Martin Heidegger, Alfredo Guzzoni, 1962

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger and Alfredo Guzzoni (the Protokoll was written by Guzzoni; Heidegger reviewed and supplemented it: "Der Text wurde von mir überprüft und an einigen Stellen ergänzt") Year: 1962 (Todtnauberg, Schwarzwald, 11–13 S…

• Schematisieren eines Chaos

  Nietzsche's account of knowledge, as read by Heidegger in Der Wille zur Macht als Erkenntnis (1939, heidegger-1961-nietzsche-i Part III): knowing is the schematizing of a chaos according to practical need. Knowledge is not correspondence t…

• Schritt zurück (the step back)

  Heidegger's name for the cardinal Bewegtheit-figure of the late-Heidegger Denken. Locus classicus: Protokoll zu einem Seminar über »Zeit und Sein« (1962) p. 38: "Der Schritt zurück tritt vor dem zurück, gewinnt Abstand zu dem, was erst ank…

• Sein und Zeit Martin Heidegger, 1967

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger · Year: 1927 (this edition 1967) · Type: book (an Abhandlung first published as Sonderdruck from Husserl's Jahrbuch für Philosophie und phänomenologische Forschung, Bd. VIII)

• Sein zum Tode (Being-toward-Death)

  Heidegger's name for Dasein's existential-ontological relation to its own end — not a future event but a structural possibility that pervades Dasein's being as long as it exists. "Der Tod als Ende des Daseins ist die eigenste, unbezügliche…

• Seinsfrage

  Heidegger's "question of Being" — the cardinal question of Sein und Zeit and the rubric under which Heidegger's lifelong project travels. The 1964 essay "The End of Philosophy and the Task of Thinking" marginal (27) reframes the Seinsfrage…

• Seinsgeschichte

  Heidegger's concept of the "history of Being" — not a chronicle of philosophical doctrines but the successive ways in which Being itself "sends" (schickt) itself, concealing itself in the very act of disclosure. As read by Merleau-Ponty, t…

• Sorge (Care)

  Heidegger's name for the Strukturganzes (structural totality) of Dasein: the unified threefold structure of Sich-vorweg-schon-sein-in-(einer Welt-) als Sein-bei (innerweltlich begegnendem Seienden) — "being-ahead-of-itself-being-already-in…

• Sovereignty

  The wiki's master concept page for sovereignty as deconstructed by Derrida in The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume I (2001–2002) and Volume II (2002–2003), and as adjacently critiqued by Chouraqui (2021) ch. 9 from the MP-side. Sovereignty…

• Task of Thinking (Aufgabe des Denkens)

  Heidegger's late name for post-philosophical thinking — a thinking that is neither metaphysics nor science, preparatory not founding (vorbereitend nicht stiftend), abseits ohne Effekt (apart, without effect), gleichwohl von eigener Notwend…

• The Beast and the Sovereign, Volume II Jacques Derrida, 2011

  Author(s): Jacques Derrida · Year: 2010 FR / 2011 EN (seminar given 2002–2003) · Type: lecture-course (seminar at EHESS)

• The Thinking of the Sensible: Merleau-Ponty's A-Philosophy Mauro Carbone, 2004

  Author(s): Mauro Carbone Year: 2004 Type: book (commentary; collection of reworked essays)

• The Unthought

  Merleau-Ponty's meta-principle for reading the philosophical tradition, taken over from Heidegger's Der Satz vom Grund and applied in "The Philosopher and His Shadow" (1959). The "unthought-of element" (das Ungedachte) in a work is not wha…

• Thinking through French Philosophy: The Being of the Question Leonard Lawlor, 2003

  Author: Leonard Lawlor (University of Memphis, Department of Philosophy) · Year: 2003 · Type: book (collected essays, revised; Indiana University Press, Studies in Continental Thought series)

• Time-to-Come / À-venir (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the temporal mode of the time-to-come, distinct from future-as-calculable-projection. From Fragile Skin I §1: "The to-come (to write it in this way) . . . would be the pre-sence of the present, that which does not yet take…

• Umdrehung des Platonismus

  Nietzsche's self-described project, recorded already in 1870/71: "Meine Philosophie umgedrehter Platonismus: je weiter ab vom wahrhaft Seienden, um so reiner schöner besser ist es. Das Leben im Schein als Ziel" (IX, 190). Heidegger reads t…

• Vanishing Ontology (Nancy)

  Nancy's name for the late-period ontological formulation in which Being is no prior or ultimate given but a sending or referral — being-as-being-toward. Locus classicus: Fragile Skin II §3 e (raw 573): "Ontology vanishes here — or makes it…

• Vers une ontologie indirecte Emmanuel de Saint Aubert, 2006

  Author: Emmanuel de Saint Aubert Year: 2006 Type: book Subtitle: Sources et enjeux critiques de l'appel à l'ontologie chez Merleau-Ponty Publisher: Vrin, Bibliothèque d'histoire de la philosophie ISBN: 978-2-7116-1852-1

• Vierdimensionale eigentliche Zeit

  Heidegger's 1962 Zeit und Sein concept of the eigentliche Zeit as lichtendes Reichen of four dimensions — Gewesen, Ankunft, Gegenwart, plus die nähernde Nähe (which is "der Sache nach die erste"). Locus classicus: Zeit und Sein (1962) pp.…

• Vollendung der Metaphysik

  Heidegger's name for what Nietzsche's thought is: not the overcoming of Western metaphysics but its completion. Vollendung is the most load-bearing thesis of the Nietzsche I lectures (1936-1939) and the operative frame for Heidegger's read…

• Vorstellung vs. Begriff

  Hegel's contrast between Vorstellung (representation / picture-thinking / "idea" in the loose sense) and Begriff (concept) marks the threshold between unscientific and scientific consciousness. The contrast runs throughout the Phenomenolog…

• Wahrheit als Gerechtigkeit

  Nietzsche's most extreme determination of truth, in his late notebooks: truth as Gerechtigkeit — justice as the fitting bestowal of constancy by the will to power. Heidegger reads this in Nietzsche I Part III as "der äußerste Wandel der me…

• Walten

  A German verb-and-noun-and-participle family — walten, das Walten, durchwalten, Mitwalten, umwalten, verwalten, Verwaltung, Übergewalt, vorwaltend, bewältigen, unbewältigt, Gewalt, Allgewalt, Gewalt-tat, Gewalt-tätigkeit — that Heidegger d…

• Wesen (Verbal Sense, MP's Reading)

  In late Merleau-Ponty, Wesen is read verbally rather than substantively: not the whatness of a thing opposed to its thatness, but the active happening by which a thing is that thing — "the Wesen of the table is 'that which "tablefies" in i…

• Will to Power

  Nietzsche's name for the essential character of reality: "the world is will to power, and that alone" (BGE 36). In Nietzsche's texts it names at once a psychological principle (drives seeking their discharge), a biological principle (life…

• Zeit und Sein (1962) Martin Heidegger, 1962

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1962 (Vortrag 31 January 1962, Studium Generale Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg, Eugen Fink leitung, "im überfüllten Auditorium maximum"; first print: Festschrift für Jean Beaufret L'endurance de la pe…

• Zeitlichkeit (Temporality)

  Heidegger's name for the ekstatic-horizonal originary time that is the ontological sense of Sorge — the structural totality of Dasein. "Zeitlichkeit enthüllt sich als der Sinn der eigentlichen Sorge" (Sein und Zeit § 65, H. 326). Zeitlichk…

• Über das Zeitverständnis in der Phänomenologie und im Denken der Seinsfrage (1968) Martin Heidegger, 1968

  Author(s): Martin Heidegger Year: 1968 (Heidegger's nachträgliche schriftliche Ausformulierung of his oral remarks at the Freiburger Katholische Akademie Fachgespräch following his Vorlesung of Mein Weg in die Phänomenologie; veröffentlich…