ABSTRACT
This chapter focuses on Heidegger's sense of history, which is, arguably, more radical than Thompson's or Williams's. It examines how the body of thought called Romanticism not only helps us penetrate Heidegger's sense of history, but enacts the subversive fantasy required to break open the order-execution cognate. With Heidegger's turn to history in his "middle period", in the lectures and writings subsequently translated as Basic Questions, Contributions, Mindfulness, and Country Path Conversations, his embrace of overtly Romanticisable topoi, tropes and other elusive modes of representation becomes more evident. Engaging with Heidegger's sense of history is something of a test – a test to see if one is willing, and able, finally, to relinquish assumptions about sequential time, especially clock and calendrical (chronic) time, for this is what is being asked for by Heidegger. Boundless obstacles lie in the way of the double experimentation – those concerning philosophy, and those to do with executive education.
