Releasement and Re-presentation, Heidegger New Horizon
If releasement exists as a product of waiting, then man cannot describe it in any way at all unless he escapes re-presentation and finds himself in the that-which-region of openness. At the same time, man never accurately depicts releasement because he lacks the words to do so. As Heidegger says, "There is much which we often cannot say, but only because the name it has does not occur to us." By describing releasement, man re-presents it, thus concealing the truth. Man does not hold power over truth, but in his words, misrepresents it. Theater and philosophy then exist as re-presentations of truth, but not the actually truth itself. They participate in the enactment of truth as some of the most accurate re-presentations that man holds the ability to give without giving someone else the experience in and of itself. Heidegger describes releasement as a type of waiting that does not fix
Philosophy, when not bound in the construct of language, works in the same way to create for man a realization of his own identity through analyzing the truth. Since, however, the truth exists as only sufficient unto itself, the philosophers analyze the re-presentations and enactment of the truth instead. ------------------------------------------------------------------------ From my point of view, man cannot describe releasement unless he experiences that journey past the re-presentation of the horizon and into openness. Then, he possesses the ability to see things as they exist, not as they appear as relative to other objects in his own microcosm. Theater and philosophy, although aiding in description, cannot fully show the truth, because both deal with concealment. The only region in which no concealment exists lies in the that-which-region of openness which remains inaccessible
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