"The heart of history, for Heidegger, is not a sequence of
occurrences but the eruption of significance at critical junctures
that bring us into our own by making all being, including our
being, into an urgent issue. In emergency, being emerges." from The
Emergency of Being
The esoteric Contributions to Philosophy, often considered
Martin Heidegger's second main work after Being and Time, is
crucial to any interpretation of his thought. Here Heidegger
proposes that being takes place as "appropriation." Richard Polt's
independent-minded account of the Contributions interprets
appropriation as an event of emergency that demands to be thought
in a "future-subjunctive" mode. Polt explores the roots of
appropriation in Heidegger's earlier philosophy; Heidegger's search
for a way of thinking suited to appropriation; and the implications
of appropriation for time, space, human existence, and beings as a
whole. In his concluding chapter, Polt reflects critically on the
difficulties of the radically antirationalist and antimodern
thought of the Contributions.
Polt's original reading neither reduces this challenging text to
familiar concepts nor refutes it, but engages it in a confrontation
an encounter that respects a way of thinking by struggling with it.
He describes this most private work of Heidegger's philosophy as "a
dissonant symphony that imperfectly weaves together its moments
into a vast fugue, under the leitmotif of appropriation. This fugue
is seeded with possibilities that are waiting for us, its
listeners, to develop them. Some are dead ends viruses that can
lead only to a monolithic, monotonous misunderstanding of history.
Others are embryonic insights that promise to deepen our thought,
and perhaps our lives, if we find the right way to make them our
own.""
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