Abstract
In his inquiries into the problem of Being, there was an obvious shift between the earlier and later periods of Heidegger's thought. Heidegger himself and the academia have different opinions on the shift in question. From the perspective of structure, the so-called "turn" of thought was essentially the transformation of the structural pattern of his inquiries. The period of Being and Time belonged to the pattern of the binary structure of "Dasein (being-there) to being"; when shifting from Dasein (being-there) to Being per se, the binary structure was turned into a unitary structure, that is "Being", which was an orientation of pure thinking. The orientation of poetry which paralleled the foregoing turns was the transformation from the binary to trinary structure, that is "Dasein (being-there) to - beings - Being". The "Beings" in the structure hereof particularly referred to aesthetic object, including artistic works, poetry, languages (as the origin of poetry), and objects of materialization. However, "Da-sein" was quite different from "Dasein (being-there)". The main distinction was that "being-there" was concerned much more about Dasein itself, which was the "for the sake of (um...zu)" to be "there", while "Da-sein" was "there" focusing on "the cause of which (um...zu)" for the sake of Being. It was exactly the original idea of Heidegger that Da-sein was the guardian of Being and responded to the calling of Being.
First Page
180
Last Page
185
Recommended Citation
Zhang, Yunpeng. 2016. "The Turn of Heidegger's Thought and the Structure of His Inquiries into the Problem of Being." Theoretical Studies in Literature and Art 36, (5): pp.180-185. https://tsla.researchcommons.org/journal/vol36/iss5/22
