THE TASK OF PHILOSOPHY ACCORDING TO HEIDEGGER: NOTES ON THE LECTURE "TIME AND BEING" (GA 14, 1962)

This article examines the reconfiguration of the task of philosophizing in Martin Heidegger's thought, contrasting the projects developed in Being and Time (GA 2, 1927) and the lecture Time and Being (GA 14, 1962). It is argued that, for Heidegger, philosophy only truly becomes itself by renouncing the demand for immediate intelligibility—a condition that enables openness to the phenomenon of the "giving of being" (Es gibt Sein) in its original correlation with time. In the 1962 lecture, Heidegger rejects the assumptions of Western metaphysics, such as the search for logical clarity, grounding, and presence, and proposes a meditation that welcomes being as an event that eludes conceptual grasp. This position marks a shift from the conception of temporality in Being and Time, where time was the horizon of intelligibility for being. After the turn, being and time are thought as co-original, as effects of a more originary event (Ereignis).