abyss

Friedrich Nietzsche

dogma

philosophy

suicide

void

trivia

acrophobia

is the “first essential clearing concealment, the unfolding of truth.

In Heidegger’s subsequent attempt to think being historically (i.e. non-transcendentally), the abyss is the “first essential clearing concealment, the unfolding of truth.”

is not a denial of any ground, rather it is the affirmation of grounding in its hidden expanse and distance.

Far from the denial of any ground, the abyss is the affirmation of grounding “in its hidden expanse and distance.”

is the ungrounded character of the truth of historical being

There are different senses of “abyss” for each beginning of thinking. In the first beginning, the abyss is the “ungrounded [character] of the truth of historical being”; in the second, it is “the appropriated [beginning] of the going-under [Untergang],” presence’s self-concealing (70: 13). The truth of the appropriating event is the “primordial ground” (Ur-grund) that opens itself as self-concealing only in the abyss (Ab-grund) (65: 380).

is the appropriated [beginning] of the going-under [Untergang], presence’s self-concealing.

is the distance between a thinker and an editorial writer.

The distance between a thinker and an editorial writer.

is the measureless gulf between literature and the American magazine.

The measureless gulf between literature and the American magazine.

abyss, n.Definitions

abyss