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Martin Heidegger, “The Provenance of Thinking” The Provenance of Thinking “From the Experience of Thinking” voices the thought: “We may venture the step back out of philosophy into the thinking of beyng as soon as we have become at home in the provenance of thinking ” (1947).150 Are we already at home there? Hardly. What does it mean: to become at home in the provenance of thinking? It says: to attain a grounded residence in Dasein where thinking receives the determination of its essence. Parmenides provides us with a ¤rst hint as to which way the provenance of thinking is to be questioned. This hint is contained in the claim: tó gär a‹tó noe¢n ìstÖn te kaÜ e†nai (Fragment 3) “Thinking and being (i.e., perceiving and presencing) belong, namely, to one another.” Yet from where is this belonging to one another determined? What preserves here the possibility of this “to one another”? For perception to be able to be encountered at all by the perceivable, it must hold itself open for . . . for what? For presencing [An-wesen]. Now for presencing to reign as such, it must be able to bring itself from itself into the open and the free dimension. Both perception as well as presencing require for their own possibility —and this means at the same time for their “to one another”—a free and open dimension, within which they encounter one another. And what is this? Parmenides names it Álæqeia. It is to be experienced . More still. Not only it, but its “never trembling heart.” In order to become at home in the provenance of thinking, it is thus necessary to ponder what is named in the title of the following text. This meditation is the precondition for suf¤ciently characterizing the “step back” and for being able to risk it with the required clarity; not as a doing of one’s own, but rather from the compliance towards a call that is still held concealed in Álæqeia itself and thus still remains reserved for thinking. [The following text is equally an attempt to examine anew the earlier characterization of Álæqeia in On Time and Being.151]152 ...

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