{
    "id": "gatherings-15-03",
    "type": "article-journal",
    "title": "On Beginning Über den Anfang",
    "author": [
        {
            "family": "",
            "given": "Richard Polt"
        }
    ],
    "container-title": "Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual",
    "issued": {
        "date-parts": [
            [
                2025
            ]
        ]
    },
    "volume": "15",
    "URL": "https://staging.heidegger-circle.org/gatherings/article/15-03/",
    "ISSN": "2164-3345",
    "publisher": "Heidegger Circle",
    "language": "en",
    "page": "37-78",
    "abstract": "As a taste of the challenge of Heidegger’s posthumously pub-\r\nlished texts, this essay interprets the opening of Über den Anfang (Ga\r\n70, 1941) – not without some preliminaries that are necessary before we\r\ncan begin. How can we approach this “treatise” on its own terms? What\r\nmood does it call for? How do we get a feel for its idiosyncratic vocabu-\r\nlary, especially if we are discussing it in English? What other texts can\r\ncome to our aid? What are some questions that arise as we make our\r\nway into the dense language of its first section? This initial approach\r\nto the text touches on some fundamental themes in Heidegger’s later\r\nthought, including inception (Anfang), event (Ereignis), and bearing\r\nout (Austrag)."
}