L’evento della differenza in Das Ereignis di Martin Heidegger

The treatise The Event, albeit in an esoteric tone, points to “the trails and paths of the enduring” [Austrag] of the difference. Here Heidegger asserts that the event is itself “beyng as the relation [Verhaltnis]”, as the “inaugural between” [Zwischen], overcoming the onto-theo-logical metaphysics, which thinks of beyng as the stable foundation of being. In the third section, which is titled The Difference [Der Unterschied], Heidegger highlights that the difference does not separate being as the supersensory world from beings as the sensory world; it is not the ontological difference [Differenz], which is “objectified” [vergegenstandlicht] in Being and Time, rather it traverses within beyng itself. Beyng is essentially difference, from which separations arise. Nevertheless, in his view, ontological difference, or rather the differentiation [Unterschiedung], remains an inevitable step to reach the inceptual thinking, i.e., the fundamental question of beyng as Unterschied. Such thinking is de-founding [Ent-stiften] toward the enduring of the difference as well as the saying of the event is a gainsaying [Ab-sage], as the thinkers must often speak in the mode of denial. Although the difference is unexperienceable for “metaphysical humanity”, Heidegger believes that there must be possible an experience of beyng itself, i.e., an experience of the difference, even if for a “transformed humanity”, which bear the pain of enduring. The difference appropriates “now and then” and the event dispropriates [enteignet], causing human being to experience his “dependence” and the “consignment” [Uber-eignung] in which his “self-arrogation” [Sich-zu-eigen] is grounded. Unfortunately, in Heidegger’s Denkweg the thought of difference remains a broken path, which other thinkers will tread. However, by asserting that at the origin there is no stable ground, but the movement of differentiation, by asserting that the ‘not’ is co-essential to beyng, or otherness to the self, Heidegger opens another beginning for the thinking.