Ricerc@Sapienza

In the lecture of 1930 on The Essence of Human Freedom, Heidegger introduces the enigmatic notion of Angriff (challenge). This paper aims to clarify this idea on the background of the wide semantic field of the verb greifen (to grasp). As a result of such analysis, Angriff can be interpreted as a reflex of a new sense of the notion of «mineness» (Jemeinigkeit), which is not perfectly compatible with the conceptual framework of fundamental ontology. The «turn» (Kehre) appears to be already at work.