In-der-Blog-sein

Over on the Heidegger mailing list Rene, feeling he's talking to himself, lists three entries, the first of which is about Seynsvergessenheit.

[S]o, with a memory, one has, as to the beginnings of SuZ, not so much the book, but the relation of being and time itself, several intro’s, which are being neglected.

1. Heidegger’s discussion of BT in the Contributions, that its background is the forgetting of Being, Seinsvergessenheit, which, first of all, has to announce itself, as Anklang/echo, and without which all talk becomes useless (as we have experienced and do always more)

What strikes me about this business about the forgottenness of beyng is that it is Heidegger at his most Platonic. Forgotten? When? And who knew? Do are immortal souls know beyng, forget it at birth, and then struggle to recall it? Is the source for the echo of beyngforgetenness the call from beyng? Did mankind know beyng back during some mythical beginning, and then unlearn it, distracted by metaphysics and its machinations? Like Karl Kraus said: "The closer the look one takes at a word, the greater distance from which it looks back."  ¶ 7:00 AM