Vattimo and the heideggerian announcement of the eventuality of being

Abstract

The second Heidegger’s inquiry about being finds its maturation in the doctrine of Ereignis, a new «post-metaphysical» concept, according to Vattimo, with which the german philosopher tries to answer the question of what being is, once he has shown, in its first intellectual stage, the essential ontological differentiation. The being is not an entity, nor that fixed and immutable that grounds the entity. Neither of it can be said to be; the being «is given». And it is given to man in an act of reciprocal donation in the totality of historical events. Vattimo starts from this idea to conclude that the being is an event that orbits in the constellation of Ge-Stell, the destiny of the present time as a way of uncovering the being, of revealing the truth, and converts Heidegger into a precursor of postmodernity and his pensiero debole.