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What is Being ? "Is" is part of the verb "to be", the verb of being. To ask" What is 'is'?" is to ask a question of BEING. That was Heidegger's central preoccupation. A strange concern? Heidegger proposed something extraordinary. 'Western tfzought lia.s J"O!l{fjmTE'}.f._to question 6eing, not just recent(y, 6ut in a process of negfect spanning 2,500 years. ~ ·._~fl1 . _;, -.~ . Heidegger's task: to return to the question. How could "being" be understood? Was it possible to forge a new disposition towards "being", redirecting the trajectories of the last two millennia? 4
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To Heidegger, what was at stake was nothing less than Western thought as it has been known - not only its philosophy, but its natural sciences, its human sciences, its everyday discourses. To turn towards "being" meant: to turn away from their traditional concerns, to place their methods, their concepts and their underlying assumptions in question. It means to propose a "tliin/(Jng" tliat proceecfs otlierwise ... ___ t_ Few philosophers have proposed such a radical disturbance of philosophy. It took Heidegger into some strange and contentious territories, both conservative and revolutionary, secular and theological, anti-traditional but deeply rooted, backward-looking while proposing a future thinking whose contours are still not settled. 5

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What is Being ?

"Is" is part of the verb "to be", the verb of being. To ask" What is 'is'?" is to ask a question of BEING. That was Heidegger's central preoccupation.

A strange concern? Heidegger proposed something extraordinary.

'Western tfzought lia.s J"O!l{fjmTE'}.f._to question 6eing, not just recent(y, 6ut in a process of negfect spanning 2,500 years.

~ ·._~fl1

. _;, -.~ .

Heidegger's task: to return to the question. How could "being" be understood?

Was it possible to forge a new disposition towards "being", redirecting the trajectories of the last two millennia?

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