Uncanny

Since we, as human beings, are the uncanniestBut human beings are the uncanniest, not only because they spend their lives essentially in the midst of the un-canny understood in this sense, but also because they step out, move out of the limits that at first and for the most part are accustomed and homely, because as those who do violence, they overstep the limits of the homely, precisely in the direction of the uncanny in the sense of the overwhelming. (161) beings—those who can see their being-in-the-world—we have the ability to take in the context of our situation. We need to step out of our bodies and see what “place” and “space” we are in.

The place where being and becoming come together— choraMight not chora mean: that which separates itself from every particular, that which withdraws, and in this way admits and “makes room” precisely for something else? (70) —serves as the opening, or the clearing, that allows us to coordinate, sift, and sort.  All of this is in an attempt to understand our Being-here (Da-sein).Humanity is the Here that is open in itself. Beings stand within this Here and are set to work in it. We therefore say: the Being of humanity is, in the strict sense of the word, "Being-here" ("Da-sein"). (219)  We are in a situation, within the overwhelming sway of our present, and need a practical reasoning method to help us understand our place within our local situation.

Heidegger gives us back our ability to question (the heart of knowing) ourselves in relation to our situation.  He reinjects a desire to know—a knowing grounded firmly in the act of questioning.  The model for this method is Greek poetry (art).

This method is more like the originary inceptive moment of logos as a gathering, rather than Aristotle's mooring of the term in the Western tradition: logic (science/reason).