Event propitiant in Heidegger. Reading guide

Abstract

The question of ‘Event’ (Ereignis) traverses the main tópoi in the German thinker Martin Heidegger’s second philosophy. It conforms his sustained attempt to answer the ontological problem of the essence of being in its difference with entities and within the horizon of surpassing Western ontotheological metaphysics. In this paper we offer a terminological and textual guide in order to orientate the reading of the main works and passages through which Heidegger explicitly approaches this sophisticated notion. Its treatment is woven here with the threads of the negativity of its refusal, its inherently donating dynamism, its historic-destinal dimensions, its tetradimensional temporal extensions, the interplay of appropriation and propitiation, and the original ethics of serenity.