Geschichte

is ‘history’ as when we say in English that such or such an event or decision was ‘historical’: i.e. it altered things in such a way that we are still living inside the space it opened up.

Geschichte means ‘history’ as when we say in English that such or such an event or decision was ‘historical’: i.e. it altered things in such a way that we are still living inside the space it opened up, just as, say, the modern West still inhabits a world in which Christianity has been a decisive, ‘historical’ force, whether one believes in Jesus or not. Historical in this way are (not ‘were’) those fundamental ways of thinking and being in which Western humanity has dwelled and understood itself since ancient Greece.

is the seemingly obvious, unthought sense of things that pervades and structures the texts.

This is not to say that Heidegger is reducing philosophical texts to merely historical documents, as in the historicism of many literary critics, but he is reading with a view to deep history in the sense of Geschichte, i.e. the seemingly obvious, unthought sense of things that pervades and structures the texts.

is the history of being conceived as a series of shifts in the most fundamental sense of human things.

Lacoue-Labarthe takes up the concept of Geschichte, the history of being conceived as a series of shifts in the most fundamental sense of human things.

geschichte, n.Definitions

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