Gatherings

THE HEIDEGGER CIRCLE ANNUAL

Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual

editorial board James Bahoh, University of Memphis; Dana Belu, California State University, Dominguez Hills; Robert Bernasconi, Pennsylvania State University; Peg Birmingham, DePaul University; Lee Braver, University of South Florida; Walter Brogan, Villanova University; Richard Capobianco, Stonehill College; Robert Crease, Stony Brook University; Benjamin Crowe, Boston University; Bret Davis, Loyola University Maryland; Gregory Fried, Boston College; Rex Gilliland, Southern Connecticut State University; Tricia Glazebrook, Washington State University; Charles Guignon,† University of South Florida; Catriona Hanley, Loyola University Maryland; Lawrence Hatab, Old Dominion University; Drew Highland, Trinity College; Tobias Keiling, University of Warwick; Theodore Kisiel,† Northern Illinois University; Daniel Kleinberg-Levin, Northwestern University; Morganna Lambeth, California State University Fullerton; Róisín Lally, Gonzaga University; William McNeill, DePaul University; Ian Moore, Loyola University Marymount; Eric Nelson, Hong Kong University of Science and Technology; David Pettigrew, Southern Connecticut State University; Jeffrey Powell, Marshall University; François Raffoul, Louisiana State University; John Rose, Goucher College; Robert Scharff, University of New Hampshire; Thomas Sheehan, Stanford University; Daniela Vallega-Neu, University of Oregon; Pol Vandevelde, Marquette University; Kate Withy, Georgetown University; Holger Zaborowski, Universität Erfurt; Krzysztof Ziarek, University at Buffalo

submission guidelines All submissions other than letters and brief responses to articles (under 1000 words) should be formatted for blind review and include a title page with paper title, author name, and affiliation (if applicable). Papers should be submitted single space, Times New Roman font, 12 point, under one of the following file formats: pdf, rtf, doc, or docx. Any Greek words or text should be entered as Unicode characters. Papers should adhere to The Chicago Manual of Style and follow the citation scheme provided at the end of each issue. The same paper may be submitted to the yearly meeting of the Heidegger Circle and to Gatherings. All papers should be sent as an attachment to gatherings@heidegger-circle.org.

G AT H E R I N G S

volume 15, 2025

letter from the editors vii Kevin Aho and Shane Ewegen

articles “The Presence of the Unhomely in the Home”: 1 Reading Wordsworth with Heidegger Mat Messerschmidt

On Beginning Über den Anfang 37 Richard Polt

Thinking Ontological Difference in the Atomic Age 79 Benjamin Brewer

On the Body in Heidegger’s Being-Historical Writings 115 Daniela Vallega-Neu

Between Emergence and Submergence: 143 On Beyng-Historical Tragedy Rylie Johnson

Heidegger’s Concept of Truth: 177 The Phenomenological Core of the Ontological Turn Joshua Fahmy-Hooke

book forum: Ian Alexander Moore, Dialogue on the Threshold 201 Katherine Davies, Alberto Moreiras, John Rose

book reviews Marilyn Stendera and Emily Hughes, 255 Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time Shawn Loht

Erik Kuravsky, Transcendence in Heidegger’s Early Thought: 267 Toward Being as Event Miles Groth

Filippo Casati, Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being: 275 An Analytic Interpretation of the Late Heidegger Marco Cavazza

To begin, we want to remind readers that the 59th Annual Meeting of the Heidegger Circle conference took place May 15–18, 2025, at Duquesne University in Pittsburgh, PA, with Doug Peduti as Convener. The 60th Annual Meeting will be held May 14–17, 2026, at Emory University in Atlanta (Decatur), GA, with Benjamin Brewer and Andrew Mitchell serving as Conveners. After four successful years serving as editor of Gatherings, Scott Campbell (Nazareth University) has stepped down, and Kevin Aho (Florida Gulf Coast University) was elected to serve as the new editor. As a wave of submissions came in to meet the February deadline for the 2025 issue (Vol. 15) of Gatherings, Kevin quickly realized he needed additional editorial support to help manage and expedite high quality reviewer reports. Shane Ewegen (Trinity College) graciously agreed to step in as co-editor and together they added several new members to the editorial board, including Dana Belu (California State University, Dominguez Hills), Tobias Keiling (University of Warwick), Morganna Lambeth (California State University, Fullerton), Ian Moore (Loyola Marymount University), and Kate Withy (Georgetown University). Gatherings Vol. 15 features a mix of articles from new and emerging scholars as well as established and internationally renowned figures. The volume begins with an article by Mat Messerschmidt that applies Heidegger’s notion of Unheimlichkeit to William Wordsworth’s autobiographical poem The Prelude to reconcile interpretative differences in Romanticism scholarship and broaden and deepen our understanding of “nature” in general. Former Gatherings editor Richard Polt follows with a paper that engages the opening section of Über den Anfang (Ga

70) as a point of entry that can help make sense of some of the denser and more esoteric themes in Heidegger’s later thought, including concepts of inception (Anfang), event (Ereignis), and bearing out (Austrag). Benjamin Brewer’s article, “Thinking Ontological Difference in the Atomic Age,” draws on archival research to illuminate the extent to which Heidegger was involved in the anti-nuclear protest movement (Kampf dem Atomtod) in Germany in the late 1950s and how his recurrent engagement with the destructive power of nuclear energy exposes tensions in Heidegger’s thought on the essence of technology, the ontological difference, and the question of what it means to be human. Daniela Vallega-Neu follows by expanding on her earlier work on the body-problem in Heidegger by situating the problem within the context of his beyng-historical writings (esp. Ga 65 and Ga 71), arguing that the revealing/concealing event of beyng is to be grasped as always prior to and more originary than the body. Rylie Johnson develops another thread in Heidegger’s beying-historical writings by interpreting the history of beyng in terms of the dynamic interplay of emergence (Aufgang) and submergence (Untergang). Against the Spenglerian view, she argues that Untergang does not indicate doom or decline but rather the inevitable submergence that lays open the possibility for another beginning. Joshua Fahmy-Hooke provides the final article in the volume, focusing on §44 of Being and Time to show the unacknowledged influence of Husserl’s Logical Investigations on Heidegger’s account of truth. Fahmy-Hooke goes on to show the limitations of Husserl’s influence that prompted Heidegger’s turn to a heterodox reading of Aristotle’s Metaphysics. Following a tradition in recent issues of Gatherings, Vol. 15 also includes a book forum, in this case on Ian Moore’s Dialogue on the Threshold: Heidegger and Trakl (SUNY Press 2022), with accompanying commentary by Alberto Moreiras, Katherine Davies, and John Rose, with Moore offering a reply. The volume concludes with reviews of Filippo Casati’s Heidegger and the Contradiction of Being: An Analytic Interpretation of the Later Heidegger (Routledge 2022), Marlyn Stendera and Emily

Hughes’ Heidegger’s Alternative History of Time (Routledge 2024), and Erik Kuravsky’s Transcendence in Heidegger’s Early Thought: Toward Being as Event (Palgrave Macmillan 2023). In closing, the editors would like to acknowledge the passing of Professor John Sallis (1938–2025). Sallis was a giant in continental philosophy, having published seminal books and articles on Heidegger as well as other key figures such as Plato, Kant, Hegel, Nietzsche, and Derrida. Over the course of six decades, he influenced and mentored countless students and served as Doktorvater for many current members of the Heidegger Circle. Sallis held named chairs at Penn State University, Vanderbilt University, Loyola University of Chicago, and Boston College, where he spent the last twenty years of his career. Both Shane Ewegen and Gatherings book review editor David Abergel were doctoral students of his. Sallis’s influence is as far reaching as it is enduring: his profound insights into the nature of things will continue to shape the landscape of academic philosophy for generations to come.

Notes

79. Benjamin Brewer ↩
115. Daniela Vallega-Neu ↩

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