Sichüberlieferung: re-moving the history of being as presence
Sichüberlieferung: re-moving the history of being as presence

Summary/Abstract: How are we to responsively belong to tradition? This paper retrieves the concept of self-tradition(Sichüberlieferung) in Heidegger’s magnum opus Being and Time (1927). We will take as a guidinglight Heidegger’s designation of a mode of his phenomenology as “phenomenology of the inapparent”expressed in the 1973 Zähringen Seminar. We will pay special heed to the function of the middle voice,neutrality of Da-sein, and tautology in the question of Being and history and bring to light the relationbetween authentic temporality and authentic historicity in a tautological turning of the selfsame. Wewill make a remark on the delay of Da-sein’s authentic historicity in the light of the “self-tradition”which marks Heidegger’s non-metaphysical response to the heritage of metaphysics of presence. Inthe wake of the phenomenology of the inapparent, we will turn to Derrida’s 2008 text The Animal thatTherefore I Am to explore Derrida’s different approach to free the “I am” from that of Heidegger’s Dasein whose being is set in Jeweilig-Jemeinigkeit. We will show how Derrida’s invention of animot enableshim and us to speak with the voices of our non-human animal others and enables us to free ourselvesfrom the fixities of presence of the present in our thought, language, and sensitivity. In a relay of the twophilosophers’ reading of us and their ways of self-overcoming of man as rational animal, we will learnto be in question and to learn to relate to one another without reducing one to the other and other tothe one..

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