''A Path that Leads There'': Heidegger and the Inapparent in the Zähringen Seminar

Abstract

The recent studies about donation and exceedance owe much to Heidegger's views. Most of them engage in a controversial response to Husserl's approaches as expressed in his static and genetic studies, omitting the elements that point beyond the egological realm. The notion of Gegebenheit, which has been seen as a trigger to redefine Heidegger's concept of truth and his distancing from Husserl's phenomenology, is central in this contribution. The primary text to explore this issue is the last seminar that Heidegger taught in 1973 in Freiburg, the Zähringen Seminar. The study of this text will be the main task in this paper. We will be interested in how emerges there the relationship between exceedance and the inapparent. On this basis, we will analyse the explicit tension with Husserl's approach. Finally, we will examine the proposal to develop a phenomenology oriented to the inapparent, which became a programme for later lines of thought. This itinerary seeks to shed light on the starting points of the explorations about exceedance and constitute the origin of the approach about a phenomenology of the inapparent mentioned in the final section, which offers tools to unveil the whole range of phenomena.