Two traps currently ensnare Heideggerian scholarship: the “language trap” and the “being
trap.” To avoid them, the text argues we should follow Heidegger’s important indication
that movement (aka ex-sistential becoming or Zeit) determines all forms of meaning (aka
the significance of things or Sein). This requires a radical rewriting of the terminology
and the structure of Zeitlichkeit in § 65 of Sein und Zeit. The text also argues for moving
beyond Heidegger’s early and late formulations of fundamental ontology and into a metaontological ethics that would apply to the economic, social, and political worlds in which
we live our daily lives.
