Heidegger understood openness as a space in which is shared, in other words in order to experience what the other experiences there must be a space open. Heidegger understands that awareness would be impossible without a space in order for us to experience a freedom. Freedom in Heidegger is tied up with the unconcealment of being. Unconcealment or aletheia means we bring something to our conscious awareness what was hidden. Humans exist “outside themselves” but Heidegger believed we are alone in this endeavor. I do not believe we are completely alone in this, and Agamben takes it from here to introduce a linguistic understanding. Agamben wants to know, what it means to say we speak. Agamben writes in an early essay, “Philosophy concerns itself with what is at issue not in this or that meaningful statement but in the very fact that human beings speak, that there is language and opening to sense, beyond, before, or, rather, in every determinate event of signification. (emphasis is mine)”

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