A short piece by Michael Eldred – Being Time Space – Heidegger’s Casting of World.

This essay gives an exposition of Heidegger’s late thinking on being, time and space, showing how each eventuates appropriately from the Ereignis (propriation). Three talks are drawn upon: ‘Time and Being’ (1962), ‘Building Dwelling Thinking’ (1951), and ‘The Thing’ (1950). Heidegger shows that both being and time are given by propriation, whereby the one gift, being, is ‘aufgehoben’ in the gift of four-dimensional time. Space is then ‘given space’ (eingeräumt) only within the three-dimensional time-clearing through the mediation of certain erected things (Bauten) that, as places, allow a site for space to be given its spaces. In the final section, the essay ventures beyond Heidegger’s casting of world as fourfold, to recast it as carousel of the world around the abyss.