In section 50 we get a kind of greatest hits list of the main concepts of the book hereto, including the assertion that we live in “the age of a complete absence of questioning and an unwillingness to establish any goals,” with “mediocrity as status symbol.” We then discuss the hyper-politicization of art and its…

We dive into sections 47 – 49 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) and end up finishing Part 1 of the book, entitled Projection. Herein we read about decision as something other than an either/or choice, about the drive to self-preservation as a kind of decision, and of the temporal-spatial character of decision as…

In Ep 45 we read through section 46, entitled “the decision (preliminary concept)”, of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger. Herein we discover and partake in more musings on decision as choice vs. decision as the saving of beings and the justifying preservation of the law and assignment of the West through stepping…

In Ep 44 we finish section 45 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event). Pivotal to this section is the distinction between decision that grounds the site for the grounding of the truth of beyng or decision that uses culture and worldview as resources in an unending technologized battle. Only in the former type of…

In Ep 43 we start reading through section 45 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger. The topic is “the decision.” Heidegger’s goal is to put forward a concept of decision that “arises through an experience of the necessity of the most extreme assignment from the innermost plight of the abandonment by being.”…

We finish reading section 44 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) wherein is discussed the truth of beyng, metaphysics’ perplexity with itself as “theory of knowledge,” the degradation of being into the correctness of representation, and the turning that is meant by “decision.” We conclude with thoughts on how “questioning into beyng” is the…

In the first half section 44 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Martin Heidegger we are presented with a number of decisions – between subject and Dasein, between animal as substance and rationale as culture or beyng in its future abode, between art as an arrangement of lived experiences or a setting-into-work of…

In section 43 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger we read of decision, both in its standard existential-psychological-anthropological sense of choosing or preferring and in its more originary sense as an opening of the temporal-spacial playing field in which the appropriation of Dasein by beyng takes place. We then discuss how this…

In section 42 of Contributions to Philosophy (of the Event) by Heidegger we read how the “way” is original questioning after the meaning of beyng, how all historiological procedure must be dropped in order to conduct this questioning, and how the questions must always change not by objection but standing up to beyng and challenging…

Sections 38-41 of Contributions are completed in this episode, so a lot of ground is covered. We read about sigetics, or the logic of silence, the conjuncture of the six elements of original thinking, and how we must arrive at beyng thru the language of being, which experiences a transformation thereby. We finish on a…