Essencing

His expression "Wesen der Sprache" does not mean "the essence of language," but the "essencing," the making of essences, that is the work of language:...language bringing things into their essence, language ‘moving us’ so that things matter to us in a particular kind of way, so that paths are made within which we can move among entities, and so that entities can bear on each other as the entities they are... ❋ Enowning (2008)

After pointing out a couple paragraphs earlier the verbal "essencing" element of Wesen, as different from the metaphysical static understanding of essence, I was surprised to find that Zizek changed "essential de-ciding" to "essential de-cision". ❋ Enowning (2008)

It was Heidegger who elaborated this feature at the formal-ontological level when, in his reading of "essence or Wesen" as a verb "essencing", he provided a de-essencialised notion of essence. ❋ Enowning (2008)

A fundamental violence exists in this "essencing" ability of language: our world is given a partial twist, it loses its balanced innocence, one partial color gives the tome of the whole. ❋ Enowning (2008)

But das Ereignis often refers to the supreme event that constitutes the Anfang, the 'beginning', the essencing of beyng, the initial revelation of being that first enables us to identify beings. ❋ Enowning (2007)