30.Some have stressed an understanding of
Ereignis as ‘the ultimate
praesuppositum of everything we are and do.’ As a consequence, ‘Whether we reflect on Ereignis or ignore it, whether we embrace it as the ground of our being or flee from it, it is always the presupposed.’ T. Sheehan (2001)
Kehre and
Ereignis: a prolegomenon to
Introduction to Metaphysics. In: R. Polt and G. Fried (eds)
A Companion to Heidegger’s Introduction to Metaphysics (New Haven: Yale University Press), p. 13. Cf. also for example S. Crowell and J. Malpas (eds) (2007)
Transcendental Heidegger (Stanford: Stanford University Press). In a succinct essay entitled, simply,
Ereignis. In: H. Dreyfus and M. Wrathal (eds) (2005)
A Companion to Heidegger (Oxford: Blackwell), pp. 375–391, R. Polt delineates three different usages throughout Heidegger’s works. Suffice to say that the notion of
Ereignis remains enigmatic and there are many different interpretations.
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