Abstract
The term “earth” plays no immanent role in Martin Heidegger’s Being and Time (BT) at all;1 in fact Heidegger begins to use it only in the 1930’s, it then becoming a proper concept. The concept thus belongs in the time after the so-called “turning” (Kehre), and then it plays an obscure role. The aim of this paper is to clarify its role and to explore the links to the concepts in BT, mainly the transcendental and historical. In fact, “earth” shows itself as a concept with the help of which Heidegger retakes the problem of the “properness” (Eigentlichkeit) of BT in the version of “proper historicalness,” and it has a momentous link to the famous idea Heidegger calls the “oblivion of Being.” At any rate, a detailed and full consideration of the concept of earth lies beyond the scope of this paper, so that I shall be concerned mainly with the writing Der Ursprung des Kunstwerkes (UK).
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