Translator/Editor’s Preface Introduction: Wandel,Wandlung, and Verwandlung (W,W, & V) More than a Title The Situation of the Question of Change in Heidegger’s Thought The Migratory-Metamorphic Articulation The Janus-Head Gestell Heidegger and the Others PART I: Metamorphoses and Migrations of Metaphysics Change at the Beginning The Double Process of Schematization 1. The Metabolism of the Immutable The Structural Traits of Philosophy The Whole-Form and Its Particular Trajectories Change—and Change 2. The Mound of Visions: Plato Averts His Gaze “Heidegger’s Doctrine of Truth” Miming Bildung History and Change First Incision: Geltung 3. “Color, the Very Look of Things, Their Eidos, Presencing, Being—This is What Changes” W, W, & V, or the Real Foundation of Inversion The Will and Its Fashioning The Inclusion of the Thinker in What Is Thought The Transformation of Transcendence 4. Outline of a Cineplastic of Being From One Change to the Other: Persistence of Form and Trajectory Continuity and Rupture The Two Turns (of Phrase) of the Heideggerian Cineplastic PART II: The New Ontological Exchange How Is There Change from the Beginning? Ereignis as Interchange Gestell: The Essential Mechanism 5. Changing the Gift The Appearances of W, W, & V in Time and Being Ereignis and Donation Second Incision: Gunst 6. Surplus Essence: Gestell and Automatic Conversion “A Change in Being—That is, Now, in the Essence of Gestell—Comes to Pass…” What is a Changing Alterity? 7. The Fantastic Is Only Ever an Effect of the Real The Crossing of Essences A Form Whose Homeland Is No Longer Metaphysics Third Incision: Changing the Symbolic PART III: At Last—Modification What Cannot Be Left Must Be Returned to 8. Metamorphosis to Modification: Kafka Reading Being and Time Modification at the Beginning The Essential Characteristics of Modification The Other, the Other! 9. “The Thin Partition that Separatese Dasein From Itself…” Modification’s Lot is Fixed to the Wall Molding and Movement Breakdown of Self 10. Man and Dasein, Boring Each Other Stimmung and Metaphysics Time’s Forms, Crossing the Depths The Event of Existence Conclusion: The W, W, & V of an Alternative Flexibility and Plasticity Effectivity and Revolution The End of All History (of Being) The Duplicity of Self-Transformation The Heidegger Change in the Balance Notes Bibliography of Cited Works by Heidegger Index