Letter on humanism: considerations on the «there» of being

Abstract

Kehre is Heidegger’s attempt to think being beyond the «Existential Analytic», that is, under the appearance of a new grammar (poetic) that has to be understood as the «event» [Ereignis] of a historic time. The drifts of the Kehre include a period where the author carried out a task to «get rid of subjectivity», whose purpose is to eradicate any subjectivist (humanist) component in his thinking. In this context, a text will be included: Brief über den Humanismus. Heidegger sustains a thesis once he has defined his new perception of ecstatic existence. He understands the Lichtung as the «brightness of being» and proposes an alternative to institutionalized metaphysical thinking through an approach to the spatial relevance of the question of being and, above all, through the introduction of the inescapable imperative to live in the house of being.