Sylvie Avakian - ‘Being Towards Death’: Heidegger and the Orthodox Theology of the East

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For Christine and Grace

I wish to express my deepest thanks and appreciation to Prof. Dr. Christoph Schwbel, not only for his wise guidance and insightful remarks concerning this particular work, which was presented to the Protestant faculty of the University of Tbingen as a Habilitationsschrift in January 2018, but also for all his profound responsiveness and encouraging accompaniment throughout the entire process of my post-doctoral degree (Habilitation) in Tbingen.

As Nature gives the other creatures over

to the venture of their dim delight

and in soil and branchwork grants none special cover,

so too our beings pristine ground settles out plight;

we are no dearer to it; it ventures us. Except that we,

more eager than plant or beast,

go with this venture, will it, adventurous more

sometimes than Life itself, more daring by a breath

(and not in the least from selfishness)

There, outside all caring,

this creates for us safetyjust there,

where the pure forces gravity rules; in the end,

it is our unshieldedness on which we depend,

and that, when we saw it threaten, we turned it

so into the Open that, in widest orbit somewhere,

where the Law touches us, we may affirm it.

Wie die Natur die Wesen berlt

dem Wagnis ihrer dumpfen Lust und keins

besonders schtzt in Scholle und Gest,

so sind auch wir dem Urgrund unseres Seins

nicht weiter lieb; es wagt uns. Nur da wir,

mehr noch als Pflanze oder Tier

mit diesem Wagnis gehen, es wollen, manchmal auch

wagender sind (und nicht aus Eigennutz),

als selbst das Leben ist , um einen Hauch

wagender Dies schafft uns, auerhalb von Schutz,

ein Sichersein, dort, wo die Schwerkraft wirkt

der reinen Krfte; was uns schlielich birgt,

ist unser Schutzlossein und da wirs so

ins Offne wandten, da wirs drohen sahen,

um es, im weitsten Umkreis irgendwo,

wo das Gesetz uns anrhrt, zu bejahen.

Rainer Maria Rilke: Improvisierte Verse

Abbreviations of the most commonly cited writings in this book appear here with the dates of their writing. Full citations of the works are given in a footnote at the first mention of a reference. The references are also provided in the alphabetical bibliography at the end of the work. Here I am maintaining the abbreviations most used in English works on Heidegger, while for citing the Gesamtausgabe I use the conventional GA abbreviation.

Whenever articles by Heidegger or Berdyaev are translated by authors other than the general editor of a book they appear as separate references. Hence, whenever articles are translated by the same translator or editor of a work, they do not appear separately.

The Divine Names and Mystical Theology

Basic Concepts (1941)

Basic Concepts of Aristotelian Philosophy (1924)

The Basic Problems of Phenomenology

Basic Questions of Philosophy: Selected Problems of Logic (193738)

Being and Time [Macquarries translation] (1927)

The Beginning of Western Philosophy: Interpretation of Anaximander and Parmenides (1932)

Contributions to Philosophy (From Enowning) (19361938)

Discourse on Thinking (194455)

Existence and Being (19291944)

Elucidations of Hlderlins Poetry (193669)

The End of Philosophy (193646)

The Event (194142)

The Fundamental Concepts of Metaphysics: World, Finitude, Solitude (192930)

Hlderlins Hymn The Ister (1942)

Identity and Difference (19561957)

Introduction to Metaphysics (1935)

Introduction to PhilosophyThinking and Poetizing (1928)

Letter on Humanism (1946) in Pathmarks

Mindfulness (19389)

Martin Heidegger in Conversation (1969)

On the Essence of Ground (1929)

Only a God can Save Us: Der Spiegels Interview with Martin Heidegger (1966)

Ontology: The Hermeneutics of Facticity (1923)

Postscript (1943) in Existence and Being and in Pathmarks

Pathmarks (191961)

Preface by Martin Heidegger, in William J. Richardson, Heidegger: Through Phenomenology to Thought (1962)

Poetry, Language, Thought (193654)

The Principle of Reason (195556)

The Question Concerning Technology and Other Essays (193654)

Rectors AddressThe Self-Assertion of the German University and The Rectorate 1933/34: Facts and Thoughts in Review of Metaphysics

Science and Reflection (1953)

The Turning (1949)

On Time and Being (19624)

What is Called Thinking? (19512)

What is Metaphysics (1929) in Existence and Being

What is Philosophy? (1955)

The Beginning and the End (1947)

Dostoevsky (1923)

The Destiny of Man (1931)

Dream and Reality: An Essay in Autobiography (1949)

Freedom and the Spirit (1927)

The Meaning of the Creative Act (1916)

The Meaning of History (1923)

Slavery and Freedom (1939)

Spirit and Reality (1937)

Truth and Revelation (1947)