Topologie, topology, topologia, topología

Topology (topologie) is the “saying of place” (a meaning that can be derived directly from the two contained terms, topos, meaning “place,” and logos). “Topology” figures only in Heidegger’s later writings and then rarely. The term appears in Heidegger’s exchange with Ernst Jünger Jünger Ernst Jünger (1895-1998) where topology (there distinguished from topography, Topographie) is described as a “discussion [Erörterung] locating that locale which gathers being and nothing into their essence” (GA9 GA9
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CartaH Wegmarken (1919–1961), ed. Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann, 1. Auflage 1976. 2., durchgesehene Auflage 1996 :412/311). In the “Le Thor Seminar,” Heidegger seems to suggest that topology is the fundamental mode for the thinking of being – “topology of beyng” (Topologie des Seyns) thus addresses the “question of the place of beyng” (Frage dem Ort oder der Ortschaft des Seyns) (GA15 GA15
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GA15EN Seminare (1951–1973), ed. Curd Ochwadt, 1. Aufl 1986. 2., durchgesehene Aufl 2005. :335/41, 344/47). The first occurrence of “topology,” which is also the first occurrence of “topology of being,” is in Heidegger’s Notebooks from 1946 (GA97 GA97
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GA XCVII Anmerkungen A [n. p.] :201–02), where “place” (Ort/Ortschaft) and “place of beyng” (Ortschaft des Seyns) also figure. [CHL Wrathall
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