On the Philosophical Reading of Heidegger: Situating the Black Notebooks
On the Philosophical Reading of Heidegger: Situating the Black Notebooks
No text interprets itself, and every text presents questions as to how it is to be read and how it is to be situated so as to enable that reading. This is no less true of Heidegger’s Black Notebooks than of any other text. This chapter examines the hermeneutical issues surrounding the reading of the Black Notebooks (more specifically the Überlegungen or Considerations) as well as of Heidegger’s work more generally. The chapter does this, first, by looking to the complexities of reading itself, and especially the reading of a thinker such as Heidegger, and, second, by looking more specifically at the Notebooks as they stand in relation to the broader development of Heidegger’s thinking, and especially as they might relate to the “topological” character of that thinking. The aim is thus to provide a more hermeneutically nuanced approach to the Notebooks that is attentive to the complexities that they present both for the reading of Heidegger and for thinking more generally.
Keywords: hermeneutics, reading, biography, authorship, topology, ethics, responsibility, philosophical understanding, thinking, failure
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