The Heidegger Change: On the Fantastic in Philosophy

373 Pages·2011·1.189 MB·English, French

by  Heidegger, Martin, Skafish, Peter, Heidegger, Martin, Malabou, Catherine

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THE HEIDEGGER CHANGE
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Edited by David Pettigrew and François Raffoul
THE HEIDEGGER CHANGE
On the Fantastic in Philosophy
Catherine Malabou
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My mind leads me to speak now of forms changed
into new bodies:
O gods above, inspire this undertaking (which
you’ve changed as well)
and guide my poem in its epic sweep
from the world’s beginning to the present day.
—Ovid, Metamorphoses I, 1–4

Contents
Translator/Editor’s Preface xi
Introduction: Wandel, Wandlung, and
Verwandlung (W, W, & V) 1
More than a Title 3
The Situation of the Question of
Change in Heidegger’s Thought 14
The Migratory-Metamorphic Articulation 19
The Janus-Head Gestell 24
Heidegger and the Others 26
PART I: Metamorphoses and Migrations of
Metaphysics 31
Change at the Beginning 31
The Double Process of Schematization 32
1. The Metabolism of the Immutable 37
The Structural Traits of Philosophy 38
The Whole-Form and Its Particular
Trajectories 43
Change—and Change 46
2. The Mound of Visions: Plato Averts
His Gaze 53
“Heidegger’s Doctrine of Truth” 54
Miming Bildung 63
History and Change 65
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First Incision: Geltung 71
3. “Color, the Very Look of Things, Their
Eidos, Presencing, Being—This Is
What Changes” 77
W, W, & V, or the Real Foundation of
Inversion 80
The Will and Its Fashioning 87
The Inclusion of the Thinker in
What Is Thought 90
The Transformation of Transcendence 94
4. Outline of a Cineplastic of Being 99
From One Change to the Other:
Persistence of Form and Trajectory 102
Continuity and Rupture 104
The Two Turns (of Phrase) of the
Heideggerian Cineplastic 112
PART II: The New Ontological Exchange 123
How Is There Change from the Beginning? 124
Ereignis as Interchange 127
Gestell: The Essential Mechanism 128
5. Changing the Gift 129
The Appearances of W, W, & V in
Time and Being 130
Ereignis and Donation 143
Second Incision: Gunst 149
6. Surplus Essence: Gestell and Automatic
Conversion 155
“A Change in Being—That is, Now, in the
Essence of Gestell—Comes to Pass . . .” 158
What is a Changing Alterity? 169