Metafisica e istituzione. Heidegger e la struttura della Stiftung

Heidegger strongly emphasized the problem of foundation in his early confrontation with current prospects and the fate of metaphysical inquiry. In addition to the two main terms of the grounding process (fundieren, gründen), he highlights a third term (stiften) from his own interpretation of Friedrich Hölderlin’s philosophical poetry. The article analyzes the metaphysical structure of institution (Stiftung). It shows whether and to what extent this conceptual framework repeats the temporal structure of human existence on a historical and meta-ontological level, and the way in which Heidegger attempts, almost unsuccessfully, to adopt it in order to start a new experience of metaphysics, and at the same time to rethink its tradition.