La questione heideggeriana dell’evento tra abbandono e donazione

The paper aims at an in-depth examination of the relationship between Ereignis and Enteignis with particular reference to the treatises of the third section of the Gesamtausgabe. Enteignis does not only name the mode of manifestation of Being [Wesung des Seyns] as Machenschaft, but indicates, the ex-propriating valence that constitutively belongs to the event-appropriation [Ereignis]. It indicates the suspension [das Ansichhalten], the retreat [Entzug], the detachment [Abgechiedenheit] and the sunset [Untergang] that prevail in the thinning/revealing dynamic of the event understood as the initiation of the beginning. Through this interpretation of the Ereignis as the retraction of Being [Sein] in the dynamic of destiny, it is possible to characterise the unfolding of the Lichtung as an abysmal event of giving and as difference. The being’s abandonment of Being [Seinsverlassenheit des Seineden] – in which lies the non-metaphysical root of nihilism – and the consequent unfolding of Being as difference, would conceal a kind of paradoxical donating foundation that suspends Being in the event of the Gabe, of the donation as Lichtung. Jacques Derrida has likened this paradoxical form of gift without donor and without donee to the concept of the holocaust, finding in it the very beginning of the history of Being. The Enteignis refers, that is to say, to an absolute oblivion, deeper and more original than the metaphysical oblivion of Being, to a Verwindung not only of metaphysics but of Being itself in the direction of abyssal donation. As Jean-Luc Nancy has suggested, it is possible to link the abandonment of being to the abundance of donation and to trace, therefore, the supra-metaphysical meaning of Enteignis in the abandonment of and to the possibility of the beginning and the future, in the germinating ‘catastrophe’ of the giving of Being.