Introduction

This introduction presents an overview of the key concepts discussed in the subsequent chapters of this book. The book takes up the difficult task of articulating a new way of inhabiting Martin Heidegger’s archipelago. It distinguishes between two different accounts of Being, namely the metaphysical interpretation and the intelligibility interpretation. The book articulates Heidegger’s understanding of entities and their Being by arguing that there is an ontological difference between the former and the latter. It also distinguishes between two kinds of ontological paradox: The former represents a linguistical problem and the latter constitutes a metaphysical issue. The book shows that Heidegger abandons the Principle of Non-Contradiction as a guiding law for the philosophical practice. It explains that Heidegger’s Contributions to Philosophy can be interpreted as defending a philosophical theory by means of which Heidegger himself accepts the two kinds of ontological paradox as true.