This paper proposes a reading of the 1935 Heideggerian course – Einführung in die Metaphysik – and focuses on the way the philosopher translates and interprets some fragments of Heraclitus and the 332-375 lines of Sophocles’s Antigone. The fundamental metaphysical question, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ is the background to the Heracliteian dynamic of identity and difference, and to the meditation of the Sophoclean chorus on mankind, his nature, and his destiny. The hypothesis I propose is that the translation of τὸ δεινότατόν as das Unheimlichste doesn’t simply mean the canonical ‘more disturbing’ but relates to Heimat, the home, the place where Man once lived but lost becoming Unheimlichste, the most restless of entities because the farthest from the origins he lost but constantly feels nostalgia for. The way back to Heimat consists of full acceptance of Erscheinen – appearing - as the shape and the way of Sein, of being. An apology of the image which confirms Heidegger’s loyalty to Nietzsche and phenomenology.

Heidegger e Sofocle: una metafisica dell'apparenza

BIUSO, ALBERTO GIOVANNI
2017-01-01

Abstract

This paper proposes a reading of the 1935 Heideggerian course – Einführung in die Metaphysik – and focuses on the way the philosopher translates and interprets some fragments of Heraclitus and the 332-375 lines of Sophocles’s Antigone. The fundamental metaphysical question, ‘Why is there something rather than nothing?’ is the background to the Heracliteian dynamic of identity and difference, and to the meditation of the Sophoclean chorus on mankind, his nature, and his destiny. The hypothesis I propose is that the translation of τὸ δεινότατόν as das Unheimlichste doesn’t simply mean the canonical ‘more disturbing’ but relates to Heimat, the home, the place where Man once lived but lost becoming Unheimlichste, the most restless of entities because the farthest from the origins he lost but constantly feels nostalgia for. The way back to Heimat consists of full acceptance of Erscheinen – appearing - as the shape and the way of Sein, of being. An apology of the image which confirms Heidegger’s loyalty to Nietzsche and phenomenology.
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