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Heidegger and the question of pain in the Black Notebooks

Publication at Faculty of Humanities |
2016

Abstract

The present paper takes as its basis the four recently published volumes from Heidegger's Gesamtausgabe - the so called "Black Notebooks" - in order to analyse how the concept of pain (Schmerz) was presented and developed in the context of the ontohistorical narrative, which characterized the heideggerian thought from the early 1930s to the late 1940s. Initiated almost simultaneously to the writing of "Contributions to philosophy", those manuscripts reveal the essential role played by an ontohistorical anti-semitism to establish the narrative of the history of Being as well as to abandon it.

This narrative was based on a manichaeism and on a polarization between Greeks and Germans on the one hand, and on judaism and machination on the other. Finally, we suggest an interpretation of the different types of pain as presented by Heidegger along this compendium.