The Flowers of Being and Time : Nature and Heidegger’s Abandonment of His Early Project

Abstract: The author argues that within the frame of the project of Being and Time Heidegger could not establish an appropriate ontological account of nature. The article shows how the concept of nature is implicated in Heidegger’s abandonment of the project. It also shows how the published text of Being and Time points to its own inadequacy in this regard, and it examines Heidegger’s attempt to develop the project in the lectures and publications in the immediate years after the publication of Being and Time . Flowers are an example of nature that Heidegger provides early in the text of Being and Time .