Heidegger’s post-war writings struck Jaspers as mystical nonsense

Evidence

Heidegger’s next letter, in April 1950, made an even worse impression, filled with talk of the need to wait for the ‘advent’ of something that would take humans over, or appropriate them; the notions of advent and appropriation were also among Heidegger’s post-‘turn’ concepts. This time, it was Jaspers who fell silent in response. When he at last wrote to Heidegger again, in 1952, it was to say that the new writing style reminded him of the mystical nonsense that had made fools of people for so long. It is ‘pure dreaming’, he said. — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café, 612

Categorization

• DEFINE: Introduces Heidegger’s post-‘turn’ concepts of ‘advent’ and ‘appropriation’ (Ereignis).
• XREF: connects to: Jaspers rejected Heidegger’s view of language as a ‘house of Being’ — Sarah Bakewell, At the Existentialist Café: Freedom,…, 612