Heidegger's Burrow. The institution of truth between δίκη and ius

Abstract

This paper deals with the philosophical question of the link, in the thought of Heidegger, between the epistemic dimension of truth and the institutional one represented by the legal and political order. The relationship between these two dimensions is fathomed using a peculiar reading key: the structure of a burrow, taken from the story Der Bau (1923), which was the Kafkian work the most appreciated by Heidegger. According to the structure of the Kafkian burrow, the paper attempts to demonstrate that the Heideggerian Denkweg about our question follows a double mouvement, apparently contradictory in itself: an omnipotent foundation of the legal-political dimension (δίκη) by the ἀλήθεια/Unverborgenheit («unveiling») which – nevertheless and, at the same time, because of this ontological revelation of the historical world – shows itself as absolutely powerless and ineffectual in front of its institutional manifestations (ius), that Heidegger considers as completely alienated from the «Being’s Truth».