History as Decision and Event in Heidegger
History as Decision and Event in Heidegger

Summary/Abstract: This paper explores Martin Heidegger’s critique of previous approaches to history, his differentiation of history as object of inquiry and temporal enactment, and his attempt in the late 1930’s to engage the past and rethink history from an inherently futural—and not merely subjectively or objectively grounded—decision and “enowning event” (Ereignis). Works of history are neither simply factual nor socially constructed for Heidegger but exhibit a hermeneutical or communicative event of disclosure—via understanding, interpretation, and appropriation—and concealment in relation to the facticity and possibilities of historical existence.

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