On the amphibology of Dasein. Around Heidegger’s self-reading in his private writings (1936-1944)

Abstract

In this paper, we would like to analyze the transformation of the meaning of Dasein (as the essence of the human being), particularly in the posthumous works and notes, written in 1930-1940. Our hypothesis is that, through the rereading of his own work, and to confront the “anthropological” interpretations of his philosophy, Heidegger radicalizes his concepts within the framework of the History of Being and the Ereignis-Denken. In this way, and in order to grasp the human being only in its relationship with being itself, we will show how the German thinker uses the concept of Da-sein in an ambivalent way: as human and as non-human at the same. This leads him to a problematic concept, far from the phenomenological insights that the first part of his work developed.