Sauf dans telle expression idiomatique comme Bewandtnis   bei  …

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VIDE: bei

auprès de [ETEM]

NT: bei : auprès de. — Sauf dans telle expression idiomatique comme Bewandtnis bei… V. ce mot. [ETEM]

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3. ‘…ich   wohne, halte mich auf   bei… der Welt  , als dem so und so Vertrauten.’ The preposition ‘bei’, like ‘an’, does not   have quite the semantical range of any English preposition. Our ‘alongside’, with which we shall translate it when other devices seem less satisfactory, especially in the phrase ‘Being alongside’ (‘Sein   bei’), is often quite misleading; the sense here is closer to that of ‘at’ in such expressions as ‘at home’ or ‘at my father’s’, or that of the French ‘chez’. Here again Heidegger seems to be relying upon Grimm, who proceeds (loc. cit.) to connect ‘bei’ with ‘bauen  ’ (‘build’) and ‘bin’. [BTRM]

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2. ‘Sein bei’. Here our usual translation, ‘Being-alongside’, fails to bring out the connection. A German reader would recall at once that ‘bei’ may mean, ‘at the home of’ like the French ‘chez’. See our note 3, H. 54 above. [BTMR  ]

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This context in particular explains why we have usually translated ‘bei’ with phrases such as ‘involved with’ or ‘intimately involved in’ to distinguish it from our translation of the prepositions mit and in. The German bei here has the same connotations of intimacy and habitual familiarity which the French chez possesses. [Kisiel  ; GA20TK:158]