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• *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…

• 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…