The objectification of the equipment: reading the heideggerian turn from the critique of metaphysics

Abstract

This paper intends to develop a brief confrontation with Being and Time from the concept of equipment [Zeug], whose analysis should contribute to the articulation of a reading of the meaning of the heideggerian Turn [die Kehre] in the 30’s. Our proposal is to unveiling the metaphysical character of Being and Time from the diagnosis of a way of relationship exclusively pragmatic and instrumental with the things of our everyday, which ultimately incurring in the problem of objectification. To this diagnosis, we should keep as a horizon the very heideggerian project of critique to the metaphysics: the finding of the objectification of the thing as equipment is made possible from the second phase of the heideggerian thinking (inaugurated by the Turn), where the critique of metaphysics is articulated as the history of oblivion of Being. At this moment, the analysis of the metaphysical basis of Modernity discloses a specific stance from which the modern subject would have guided himself to the domination of beings, one same stance to be identified in the analysis of the equipment in Being and Time. So from an immanent reading to the heideggerian thinking, because guided by the continuity of his critical project, we can understand the Turn as a deepening of the task of overcoming of metaphysics, whose demand should surpass both the objectification of relationship with the things of our everyday worlds and the modern stance of domination.