““He describes A5 here as the act of thinking determining Being: Thinking sets itself against Being in such a way that Being is re-presented to thinking, and consequently stands against thinking like an ob-ject. . . . Consequently, thinking is no longer just the opposing member in some new distinction but becomes the basis on which one decides about what stands against it, so much so that Being in general gets interpreted on the basis of thinking. . . . In the seemingly irrelevant division Being and thinking we have to recognize that fundamental orientation of the spirit of the West that is the real target of our attack. (Heidegger, IM 123–24, last italics added)””
