Abstract

General Statement. The concern of this thesis is the shape of Martin Heidegger's thinking. The assumption, in this regard, is that one may come to know that shape of thought only by examining and articulating the central moments of the movement of that thinking as it strives towards, and finally offers descriptive answer to, the matter most fundamental to thinking: un-truth as the essence of truth. ;Thematic Continuity of Chapters. Thought, for Heidegger, is called to the sourceful and essentially hidden ground of Being, through language. Chapter One of my thesis is an analysis of Vom Wesen Der Wahrheit as a singular movement from propositional language through to the thought provoking and ironic disclosure of un-truth as both the essence of truth and as the truth of essence. ;The central concern of Chapter Two of my thesis is to analyse Heidegger's sense of the philosophical power of the poetic word as the way of thought into the sphere of un-truth. In dwelling so conclusively within the sphere of un-truth, thought experiences the nature of this unified dwelling with Mystery as, most essentially, one of pain-full separation and dif-ference. ;Chapter Three of my thesis is an analysis of Heidegger's Die Frage Nach Der Technik for the reason that it is most clearly within this text that the meaning and shape of this apparent, unified dif-ference of thought and Mystery is philosophically reflected on. The penultimate conclusion of Die Frage Nach Der Technik is that art is the unity wherein the pain-full dif-ference of thought and Mystery resounds. ;Chapter Four of my thesis is a reflection on that innermost process within Die Frage Nach Der Technik which itself permitted Mystery as such to be given to thought as the innermost nature of a difference-based unity: the problem of the coming to be and not coming to be of things. It is as such that the meaning and interrelation of time and Being became disclosed as the most urgent problematic of thought's inquiring journey towards and within Mystery as given in Chapter Three: the innermost nature of dif-ference based unity of man and destiny. ;Chapter Five of my thesis, an analysis of Die Kehre, is an intense phenomenological account of the structure of Un-sending. It is within Die Kehre, and only there, that Heidegger's thought shows itself as a recoil upon the innermost shape of the process of thought's inquiry into the essence of truth