Über das nichts-sagende Schweigen. Ein phänomenologischer Versuch einer Annäherung an das Fragwürdige in Martin Heideggers Sigetik

Abstract

On Non-Saying Silence. A Phenomenological Attempt at an Approach Towards the Questionable in Martin Heidegger’s Sigetics - Although silence can be understood from its non-saying, the “non-” of this nonsaying cannot simply be determined from the negation of saying, but is carried by a certain multiplicity. In a demarcation from, for example, mere silencing, the contribution pursues Heidegger’s question to what extent silence in its non-saying is saying in the sense of showing, insofar as it points to an original dimension of the letting-spring of a source, of which the early Heidegger already speaks in Being and Time, when at one point he seeks to understand the self of selfhood as silence. At the same time, perhaps here an access to the later Heidegger’s concept of serenity can be opened up.

Keywords

• silence
• stillness
• listening
• letting-be
• self