| The sense of “dwelling” for Heidegger is familiar to us, Not only from “The Thing,” where we saw that Man dwells in nearness to Being, but from the Hölderlin interpretations, where we learned that the poet dwells in near-ness to the Source. It is no great surprise, then, to hear that dwelling is “the fundamental Being-structure” of There-being, hence the manner in which There-being abides, sojourns, is. It comports two dimensions: open-ness unto Being in its polyvalent One-ness (”...mortals are in (polyvalent Being), inasmuch as they (584) dwell. ...”); comportment with beings, sc. things, with which from the very beginning There-being takes up its sojourn, and, indeed, inevitably so. The old Saxon (wuon) and Gothic (wunian) forms from which the German word for “dwelling” (wohnen) derives, suggest, besides, the notion of “treating with consideration” or “taking care of” something, which we translate “to tend,” as this word is used with reference to a watchman, caretaker or shepherd with his sheep. | The sense of “dwelling” for Heidegger is familiar to us, Not only from “The Thing,” where we saw that Man dwells in nearness to Being, but from the Hölderlin interpretations, where we learned that the poet dwells in near-ness to the Source. It is no great surprise, then, to hear that dwelling is “the fundamental Being-structure” of There-being, hence the manner in which There-being abides, sojourns, is. It comports two dimensions: open-ness unto Being in its polyvalent One-ness (”...mortals are in (polyvalent Being), inasmuch as they (584) dwell. ...”); comportment with beings, sc. things, with which from the very beginning There-being takes up its sojourn, and, indeed, inevitably so. The old Saxon (wuon) and Gothic (wunian) forms from which the German word for “dwelling” (wohnen) derives, suggest, besides, the notion of “treating with consideration” or “taking care of” something, which we translate “to tend,” as this word is used with reference to a watchman, caretaker or shepherd with his sheep. |
