L’Ereignis – Singulare tantum

Starting with two enigmatic statements from the Thor Seminar (1969): ‘With the Ereignis, it is no longer Greek at all’; ‘One of the best ways to access the Ereignis would be to look into the essence of the Gestell’ (the enframing, the device, the whole constellation of the Stellen, Bestellen), this contribution critically examines the interpretations/translations of the Ereignis in terms of an event. While Heidegger still thinks of the Ereignis in terms of the ‘destinical sending’ (Geschick, Schicken), this, far from being inscribed in a temporal dimension, opens up a space of joined relationships (the Ereignis understood as Verhaltnis aller Verhaltnisse) brought together in the crossing (Vierung, in the sense of the crossing of ogives) which holds and maintains together the agreement of the Four: Earth - Heaven, Mortals - Immortals). This explains how the Ge-Stell can be seen as the (photographic) negative of the Ereignis.