TINNING, S.: Which came first, being or the boundary? Approaching the question of the boundary through the work of Martin Heidegger.
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Philosophica Critica, vol. 9, 2023, no. 2, ISSN 1339-8970, pp. 2-24
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Publication date: 2024
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Abstract: The concept of the boundary has a peculiar role in the history of philosophy. On one hand, it encapsulates the very activity of philosophy: the activity of de-limiting, of de-fining, a given phenomenon. On the other hand, the question of the boundary is rarely addressed as an explicit question of philosophical inquiry. In my talk, I wish to compensate for this taking my point of departure in the philosophy of Martin Heidegger. More specifically and inspired by Heidegger himself, I will interpret his all-important question of being as a question of the boundary. Through this approach, I will outline how the boundary formations dominated by peras and what I term the ´distinction´ are constitutive to the question of being in Antiquity and in the long period from Latinity to the present, respectively. I will also develop Heidegger´s early and late responses to the question of being in terms of the horizon and the event as two different concepts of the boundary - both of which comes out of his critical dialogue with peras and the distinction. In the last part of my talk, I will conclude by outlining a tentative definition of the concept of the boundary as essentially posing a question, the question of the boundary itself.
Keywords: being – boundary – Heidegger – distinction – horizon
DOI: 10.17846/PC.2023.9.2.2-24
Keywords: being – boundary – Heidegger – distinction – horizon
DOI: 10.17846/PC.2023.9.2.2-24
