At Le Thor, September 9, 1969, the horizon of the difference is beyond simplistic negation.

From what place can Heidegger say:

Being : Nothing : The Same?

From a question concerning the essence of metaphysics, that itself is nothing metaphysical. Heidegger's word belongs neither on the side of beings, not simply on that of being, it speaks from where the horizon of the difference itself becomes visible. If one will allow, the ontological difference is the condition of possibility for metaphysics, the place upon which it is grounded.

But what is the theme of the Heideggerian proposition? It is difference itself. Heidegger speaks of the difference, without holding onto it; thereby he has abandoned metaphysics. One can now ask, what is chracteristic of the nothing just spoken of ? If it is nothing negative, then by what it is distinguished? Heidegger says: it is a nihilating nothing [nichtendes Nichts]. The essence of the nothing consists in the turning away from beings, in the distance from them. Only in this distance can being as such become apparent. The nothing is not the simple negation of the being. On the contrary, the nothing in its nihilation refers to the being in its manifestation. The nihilation of the nothing "is" being.

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