ABSTRACT
This chapter discusses to read Joseph Conrad's novel Lord Jim by paying heed to Heidegger's thinking after the Turn. It focuses the analysis in part on the novel as a work of art and in part as a text that stages the human's essential relation to being through Heidegger's understanding of Sophoclean tragedy. In the course of the reading of the novel one has attempted to provide a possibility to rethink the text in terms of Heidegger's notion of "the other beginning", which problematizes traditional hermeneutic interpretations of literature. The chapter suggests that attending to the movement of the text, to avoid getting caught up in a focus on the content by retelling the plot, can leads to, as readers, making the leap into a reading that addresses the preconditions and origin of art at the limit of metaphysics. It also focuses on the keywords such as the jump/leap, destining, decision, doubt, and tragedy.
