We will once again be able to recognize and restore the intrinsic meaning to entities, if only we can learn to practice a phenomenological comportment sensitive to the "Appropriation" (her somewhat old-fashioned translation of Ereignis), an ontological truth event that — even after the end of ontotheology – still "takes away that which is its own from boundless unconcealment" (as Heidegger puts it in the 1962 essay, "Time and Being", in a passage White quotes). Obviously, such ideas ring rather differently from the measured tones of Being and Time, yet for White there is nothing new to be found even in the later Heidegger’s famous notion of Ereignis, which she reads simply as Heidegger’s later way of spelling out the implications already contained in the early notion of Eigentlichkeit. Ereignis might be the later Heidegger’s preferred name for a genuine ontological "event", a revolutionary insight that inaugurates the next stage in the history of being, but Being and Time already understood the authentic Augenblick as a "moment of insight" that "discloses the being of what-is". With the support of some of Heidegger’s most spectacular etymological acrobatics, White reads Ereignis back into Eigentlichkeit and maintains that, already in Being and Time, the authentic moment of "[i]nsight is in fact the ‘happening’ in which Dasein lets itself be taken up into the Appropriation of being".
