Being at large
the only emergency is the lack of events
pp. 77-84
in: Michael Marder, Santiago Zabala (eds), Being shaken, Berlin, Springer, 2014Abstract
The few passages where Martin Heidegger stressed the "futural"1 possibility of hermeneutics should be read not only as another indication that his understanding of hermeneutics is more radical, anarchic, and progressive than Hans-Georg Gadamer's but also as directly concerned with Being's event. Since the publication in 1989 of Contributions to Philosophy (a text whose thesis had already been circulating), philosophers from different traditions have begun to acknowledge the onto-logical nature of the event either deconstructively (Jacques Derrida), analytically (Donald Davidson), or mathematically (Alain Badiou), but few have related it to hermeneutics.2 Although Gadamer's conservative hermeneutics emphasized the event of interpretation,3 it did not engage in the ontological features of the event, features that are bound, as we will see, with the anarchic nature of hermeneutics.
