Issue #45

Abstract: The article analyzes the strategy of comprehension of Anaximander’s fragment proposed by Martin Heidegger. Heidegger, proceeding from his specific task — to raise the question of Being again, consistently rejects the traditional strategies of understanding Anaximander and offers his own translation, radically differing from the variants of his predecessors both lexically and conceptually. The specificity of Heidegger’s translation is due to his understanding of Anaximander’s words as an utterance of thinking rather than a natural philosophical statement, from which it differs in a number of formal features. Heidegger proposes to think of Being and beings as presence and presences. Presence and presences, in turn, are thought in close connection with human perception. Thus, thinking of Being as presence and beings as presences, M. Heidegger fills these words with conceptual content, characteristic rather for left-wing theorists and undermining the idea of some immutable “order of things” and various relations that appeal to this order in one way or another.