Heidegger’s Ontology of Events

James Bahoh is an Assistant Professor of Philosophy at the University of Memphis. He is a previous recipient of a Fulbright Postdoctoral Scholarship and a VolkswagenStiftung / Andrew W. Mellon Postdoctoral Fellowship. He is author of Heidegger's Ontology of Events (Edinburgh University Press, 2020) and articles in journals like Comparative and Continental Philosophy, Gatherings: The Heidegger Circle Annual, Deleuze and Guattari Studies, among others.

By emphasizing Heidegger’s consideration of "the event" (das Ereignis) in its relation to issues of difference, truth, and history, Bahoh gives us an "updated" Heidegger, one ready for Deleuze, speculative realism, and the ontological debates of the twenty-first century.

• IntroductionThematic FocusTranslating ‘Ereignis’Overview of Chapters 1–6The Question of Poetic (or Poietic) Language and Art1. The Methodological Ground of Heidegger’s Ontology of EventsProblemsMethodological PrinciplesHeidegger’s Productive LogicSolutions4.1: Solution to the Problem of Consistency4.2: Solution to the Problem of Arrangement4.3: Solution to the Problem of Terminology and Grammar4.4: Solution to the Problem of Textual PriorityConclusion2. The Historical and Ontological Senses of ‘Event’ and their RelationThe Historical Sense of ‘Event’The Ontological Sense of ‘Event’The Criterion of Radical CritiqueThe Methodological and Ontological Relation Between the two Senses of ‘Event’The Groundwork for Fundamental Ontology in Sein und ZeitThe Ontology of History in Sein und ZeitThe Historical Alienation of Dasein from its Ground in BeiträgeEr-gründung (Fathoming the Ground) and the Historical Sense of ‘Event’ in BeiträgeConclusion3. Dasein and the Precursory Question of TruthTruth and Dasein in Sein und ZeitTruth and Dasein in ‘Vom Wesen der Wahrheit’4. Truth and Event in Beiträge zur Philosophie (Vom Ereignis)The Problem of Seiendheit and the Shift from Sein to SeynThe Shift from the Leitfrage to the GrundfrageThe Event and the Essence of TruthThe Correlationist Interpretation of ‘Event’ (Sheehan and Meillassoux)The Position that ‘Event’ is Equivalent to Anwesen, Ἀλήθεια, Φύσις, or the Giving of What is Given (Capobianco)5. Difference, Truth and EventHeidegger’s Ontology of Difference1.1: The Ontological Difference1.2: DecisionHeidegger’s Differential Concept of Truth2.1: Two Points of Clarification Heidegger’s Differential Concept of EventThe Genesis of Distortion in the Structure of the Event: The Un-wesen of Truth6. Event, Ground and Time-SpaceThe Event and Ground1.1: Ab-grund1.2: Ur-grund and Un-grundThe Event and Time-Space2.1: Preliminary Clarification of Time-Space2.2: Time-Space, Temporality, Spatiality and the Logic of the EventConclusionBibliographyIndex