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Part Two of “Translating Heidegger translating Wesen” explores the implications of our indiscriminately eschewing rather than discerningly embracing the Latinate cognates of (the incipient esse in) essentia to address what I refer to in Part One as the “seemingly...

“Translating Heidegger translating Wesen” outlines the challenge to interpreters of Martin Heidegger’s other-than-metaphysical thinking of being [Seinsdenken], of contending with and seeking to unravel a being-historic mystery at the inception of occidental thinking...