EREIGNIS

“Coming to presence” here translates the gerund Wesende, a verbal form that appears, in this volume, only in this essay. With the introduction into the discussion of “coming to presence” as an alternate translation of the noun Wesen (essence), subsequent to Heidegger's consideration of the meaning of essence below (pp. 30 ff.), occasionally the presence of das Wesende is regrettably but unavoidably obscured. (QCT p. 22)