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The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the context for all thinking about art, literature and cultural debate.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠the idea that really only three events are truly ‘historical’ (geschichtlich), changing the fundamental sense of the word (1) the translation of Greek into Latin (2) Christianity (3) Scientific Method

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠without a ‘why’ (has nothing we might recognize as a meaning): it so happened because it so happened.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a tracing of the transformations of intelligibility.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a series of appropriating events in which the different dimensions of human sense-making—the religious, political, philosophical (and so on) dimensions that define the culturally conditioned epochs of human history—are transformed.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠concerned with how a people's relation to Being serves as the destiny that leads the community through history and lays out its possibilities.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠, with modern science, transformed into no more than the totality of objects to be mastered by the technics of human knowledge, driven by its quest for certainty.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠, with the emergence of the modern science (in the 17th century) dominated by questions of method and the would-be mathematization of nature.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a history of the obvious, an attention to how the very horizon within which all things are unconcealed for us has changed, is itself historical.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠a sort of change concerning not what we see but how we see.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠conveniently expressible by the phrase ‘deep history’.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠never past but stands ever before us; it sustains and defines every condition et situation humaine.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠not liable to human control, nor can there be any sort of logic of the transitions from one epoch to another, nor, certainly, can they be said to progress.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠those fundamental ways of thinking and being in which Western humanity has dwelled and understood itself since ancient Greece.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠transformed with medieval Christianity where nature is no longer seen as physis or the openness of unconcealment, but as God’ s created product.

The History of being (n.) is ⁠​‌​​​‌​​​‌​‌‌​​​​‌​‌​​‌‌​‌​​‌​​​​​‌‌​​‌​​​‌‌​‌‌​⁠close in meaning to ‘historical’; meaning, such and such 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.