The Triple Writing of Being in the Work of Heidegger. An Interpretation from the Black Notebooks

Abstract

This paper seeks to clarify the philosophical reasons for which Heidegger used, throughout all his work, three ways to write the word Being: Sein, Seyn and Seyn (crossed out). It intends to understand which is the sense for each one of these three words, as well as their mutual relation, if there is between them overcoming, denial or complementarity. The proposed thesis is that each of them names a different aspect of the donation of being, each one approaches more than the previous one to the fund of the experience of being, but this does not mean that there is an overcoming, but the three designated instances they are in an intimate relationship of co-belonging. It will be shown that Sein refers to the philosophical project that search for the being as sense, as pre-ontological comprehension of human being. Seyn points out to the fact that human is not immediately linked to the more authentic essence of the truth of being, but he must be appropriated for it, so that the idea of Ereignis is alluded. Finally, as it is known, Seyn (crossed out) refers to the idea of the Fourfold (das Geviert), but besides that, the last published Black Notebooks let us see that the emergence of the third writing of Being is directly linked with two practically unknown ideas in the work published during the lifetime of the author: an eschatology of Being and an event of expropriation (Enteignis).