Thinking through Heidegger's "Untergang"☆.
This article reveals and elucidates the multilayered significance of Heidegger's notion of going‐under (Untergang) that remain concealed in his three‐volume Ponderings written from 1931 to 1941 as well as in his other nonpublic manuscripts concerning the history of Beyng written around the same peri...
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Wiley-Blackwell
Mar2021
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