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It is telling that the question Heidegger chooses to address is not what calls for thought nor what caused thinking. He does not ask the reader to consider an external object, the thought as an atomic whole, singularity
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Most thought provoking in our thought-provoking time is that we are still not thinking. We are a sign that is not read. We feel no pain, we almost have Lost our tongue in foreign lands. It is telling that the question Heidegger chooses to address is not what calls for thought nor what caused thinking. He does not ask the reader to consider an external object, the thought as an atomic whole, singularity, nor does he phrase the question in the past tense. The question is not even what calls us to think, for perhaps we will not arrive in that foreign land. Clearly upon embarking on this journey, we must be well provisioned, mark our path well. This is a journey from which we may not return. What calls for thinking, what beckons, seeks, names.1 Quickly thinking becomes the coquette. " . . . This most thought-provoking thing turns away from us, in...
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