ABSTRACT
Two kinds of claims have been made for Martin Heidegger. Since these claims appear to contradict one another, we intend to examine how such opposed readings of one text arise. By producing a third reading which accounts for the possibility of the other two, we hope to transcend their limitations. We will propose that each arises from an interpretation of Heidegger’s text as the appearance of a version of reality brought to Heidegger from elsewhere. By contrast, we will attempt to interrupt Heidegger’s text, that is to reveal the gap between appearance and reality that his text exhibits. In showing how this gap is produced by his use of language, it will be possible to transcend Heidegger’s way of writing. Paradoxically, his interpreters remain trapped within their version of what his way of writing is.
