{
    "id": "gatherings-15-06",
    "type": "article-journal",
    "title": "Between Emergence and Submergence: On Beyng-Historical Tragedy",
    "author": [
        {
            "family": "",
            "given": "Rylie Johnson"
        }
    ],
    "container-title": "Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual",
    "issued": {
        "date-parts": [
            [
                2025
            ]
        ]
    },
    "volume": "15",
    "URL": "https://staging.heidegger-circle.org/gatherings/article/15-06/",
    "ISSN": "2164-3345",
    "publisher": "Heidegger Circle",
    "language": "en",
    "page": "143-176",
    "abstract": "This essay investigates the tragic kernel of Heidegger’s his-\r\ntory of beyng. Arguing that his 1930s view of tragedy is centered around\r\nthe confrontation between Aufgang and Untergang, or emergence and\r\nsubmergence, which characterizes the difference between the first and\r\nother beginnings, I demonstrate that Heidegger radically affirms sub-\r\nmergence for the sake of another beginning. Rendering submergence\r\nsynonymous with the truth of beyng, its self-concealment, Heidegger\r\nclaims that the emergence of beings in the first beginning required\r\nsubmergence, which is appropriated in the other beginning. Hence, this\r\ntragic play of emergence and submergence unfolds the history of beyng.\r\nI further argue that Heidegger develops this idea through a critical\r\nconfrontation with Oswald Spengler’s Decline of the West. Heidegger\r\nexplicitly subverts Spengler’s position by arguing that while the West\r\nis fundamentally tethered to Untergang, this does not mean decline or\r\ndecay, but rather the submergence that intimates another beginning."
}