Taking Heidegger Literally: A Brief Note

This note argues that Heidegger's account of the Lichtung should be taken more literally than Heidegger himself allows. Heidegger shows us that beings are not first encountered neutrally but rather in a meaningful world. Yet by treating the clearing as an ontological condition rather than the already-open world itself, Heidegger preserves a metaphysical residue. Against this, I read the clearing as literal: sky, ground, horizon, the already-around-us. This literalization exposes what I believe to be the agrarian limits of Heidegger's grammar of Being, ground, dwelling and rootedness. Instead I will borrow from a language with less agrarian-echos, Turkish, and reinterpret the term Yol to mean the "way", as we often study things in terms of the way they are, this is often taken for granted. From here I do a very minimal introduction to yolcu and attempt to analyze what it may offer over Dasein. This note is preliminary and an early gathering of thoughts that I have towards this project. I plan on developing it much further, in time.