In-der-Blog-sein

Metablog happens to get into a tizzy about the event.

Being and Time (51-52) speaks of death as an event. What could it possibly mean to call death an appropriation?

And Heidegger certainly does not mean that death is "emergence into intelligibility." On the contrary. Also, Being and Time outlines a philosophy of history in which Heidegger often refers to past events. It is ironic that Sheehan, who is so concerned with dating texts, should not realize that the early Heidegger understands Ereignis literally.

Well, of course, when Heidegger needs to use the word "event", he uses it. But a more complete trawl through the works would have unearthed Heidegger already using Ereignis with his own special sense in his KNS course in 1919. He just kept that special sense in his pocket until the mid-30s, when he started using it again, in his private manuscripts, and then after the war in a few of the works he published.

And note that this bit:

To indiscriminately substitute "appropriation" wherever Heidegger utters Ereignis, as Sheehan seems to propose...

is missing any citation of Tom Sheehan proposing such a course.  ¶ 4:14 PM