The authentic voice of truth and the resonance of Being

Heidegger’s radical thought in Being and Time ([1927] 1969) was that sociality is a primordial part of existence. However, as will be seen in this article, it is through the concept of authenticity that this relationality is subsumed into a totalized idea of the community of authentic People. Authenticity becomes intrinsically bound up with this new political destiny; no longer is it death as Dasein’s ownmost possibility, but it becomes community as a work of death, as shown by the genocides that haunt our shared history.

Building upon Nancy’s reorientation of Being and Time as a social ontology, I shall show how, by reading Heidegger’s philosophical opus via vocality and aurality, we are able to reorientate authenticity instead as a relation of shared resonance.

I will show how ‘voice’ can be shown to be a phenomenon that takes a privileged place; what it utters are not words or phrases as such, but it is rather a voice that speaks in between our words, it contaminates them. In short, the voice of the friend speaks the truth of our Being-with others, it calls from a relation between us which is arguably beyond both the phenomenological subject qua philosophical one. The voice opens us up to each other from in-between in an authentic relation of resonance.