What lets meaningfulness come about at all? In his briefest account, Sheehan provides a twoconcept answer to this question, one from the very core of Being and Time and the other from the core of the later Heidegger. What makes meaning possible at all? The answer: die Lichtung , the lighted clearing that opens a realm of intelligibility for the human being and demarcates its essentially hermeneutic situation. But what then makes the clearing possible? The answer: das Ereignis, the properizing event of appropriation that throws us into the unique clearing of intelligibility into which we happen to find ourselves thrown.
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