Late Heidegger

is characterized by the way he went from a resolute sort of grasping of things to a kind of openness and so forth.

Now, in what way does the later Heidegger differ from the earlier Heidegger? What are the real grounds of the difference? There are a lot of different views of this and it's not a settled question in Heidegger scholarship. People say that he went from a resolute sort of grasping of things to a kind of openness and so forth. That's probably true, but I don't think that's the essence of it.

is uniquely interested in thinking Being historically, in showing how things showed up differently or the Greeks (heroes), or or the Christians (saints and sinners), or or us moderns (anxiety and technological nihilism).

At one point, I think he says it clearly where he says that he has changed to thinking Being historically and that that's what he wasn't doing before. You can see that he wasn't doing it before because everything I've explained so far was supposed to be about the structure of all human beings anywhere anytime. Even anxiety was supposed to be this, what any human being experienced and fled from or faced up to. Late Heidegger is But now Heidegger gets the idea that there is something special about each epoch of our understanding of Being and that he had been talking only about the modern epoch without realizing it. And he begins to try to describe these various epochs. For the Greeks, they felt rooted, they weren't unsettled, and things showed up for them as natural and they appreciated them. And for the Christians, they felt that they were created and that the all the things they dealt with were creatures, and that they could read God's plan out of the world. And for us, we have another understanding of Being, an understanding of Being where everything is objects for us to control and use, and we're subjects with desires to satisfy. So that these are all different understandings of what it is to be a thing, what it is to be a person, what it is to be an institution. Heidegger would say different understandings of what it is to be. And if you have a different understanding of what it is to be, then different sort of things show up. For the Greeks, heroes showed up and and beautiful things in Homer. For the Christians, saints and sinners showed up. You can't have any saints and sinners in Greece, they would just be poor people everybody walked all over. You can't have any heroes in the Middle Ages, they would be proud people who were damned. So different sorts of people and things show up. And Heidegger now thinks he should talk about the kind of peoples and things that show up in our understanding of Being.

is a transition in focus from Dasein's distinctive mode of Being which is identified is temporality to a shift in focus to the claim that human Being consists most fundamentally in dwelling.

In Being and Time, the most fundamental a priori transcendental condition for there to be Dasein's distinctive mode of Being which is identified is temporality. In the later philosophy, the ontological focus ultimately shifts to the claim that human Being consists most fundamentally in dwelling.

is a shift form asking the question of Being from the perspective of Dasein, to asking it from the perspective of Being.

This reformulation means (in a way that should become clearer in a moment) that we are now asking the question of Being not from the perspective of Dasein, but from the perspective of Being (see above on abandoning subjectivity).

is a subtle reformulation of the question of Being itself. The question now becomes not ‘What is the meaning of Being?’ but rather ‘How does Being essentially unfold?’

This shift of attention emerges out of a subtle reformulation of the question of Being itself, a reformulation performed in the Contributions. The question now becomes not ‘What is the meaning of Being?’ but rather ‘How does Being essentially unfold?’.

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