Prevladavanje metafi zike i pojam opuštenosti (Gelassenheit)
Th e Overcoming of Metaphysics and the Notion of Looseness (Gelassenheit)

Summary/Abstract: Overcoming the metaphysics is for Martin Heidegger the key moment in history of thinking which has partially happened (Nietche’s will for power), although metaphysics still remains the basis of western philosophy. According to Heidegger metaphysics is not limited to philosophy domain - it represents a civilization achievement regarding the entire European cultural heritage. His diagnosis shows that the state of thinking is overpowered by the technique (concept that includes a wide range of scientifi c knowledge), and that the will for power (will for will) whose history began with the modern philosophy, refl ects the very essence of thinking. Heidegger concludes that a completely diff erent “strategy” of thinking could overcome the metaphysics in order to achieve thinking model not based on the will for power. But the question is: What kind of basis or model would it be? In my opinion, with the term looseness (Gelassenheit), Heidegger was in his way to produce a completely new thinking as a sign of the overturn and to set a new foundation of discourse. He placed the looseness opposite to the will for power, as a thinking which clearly says: “I only want not to want!” With the term looseness Heidegger tried to answer the key questions in contemporary philosophy as well as in thinking itself.

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