BCDU (2014) – bergen

(BCDU  )

The constellation of concepts grouped around the verb bergen—which is central for Heidegger, since it is explicitly developed elsewhere to explain the concept of truth as Unverborgenheit, on the basis of the Greek alêtheia—refers in German to an original ambivalence given by language. Like the famous verb aufheben at the origin of Hegelian thinking, the verb bergen is ambiguous from the outset, because it means both “conceal” ( like verbergen ) and “bring out” ( for example, victims buried under ruins ). Heidegger recomposes the Greek alêtheia by resorting to the concept of Unverborgenheit, constructed on the basis of the verb verbergen ( “conceal,” but also “hide from our sight” ). Thus alêtheia is the essence of what was hidden from our sight ( verborgen ) and appears as if unburied, un-concealed. That is why the “poïetic” part of Ge-Stell refers to the ambivalence of technology, which brings out Being but at the same time veils it, since reason receives back only its own image, which it sends to itself.