Ge-stell (p. 19)

In this page, Heidegger formulates the challenging claim that gathers so as to reveal as "Ge-stell" or enframing. By enframing, things are assembled and ordered in new ways.

and striving, shaping and working, entreating and thanking, he finds himself everywhere already brought into the unconcealed. The unconcealment of the unconcealed has already come to pass whenever it calls man forth into the modes of revealing allotted to him. When man, in his way, from within unconcealment reveals that which presences, he merely responds to the call of unconcealment even when he contradicts it. Thus when man, investigating, observing, ensnares nature as an area of his own conceiving, he has already been claimed by a way of revealing that challenges him to approach nature as an object of research, until even the object disappears into the objectlessness of standing-reserve.
Modern technology as an ordering revealing is, then, no merely human doing. Therefore we must take that challenging that sets upon man to order the real as standing-reserve in accordance with the way in which it shows itself. That challenging gathers man into ordering. This gathering concentrates man upon ordering the real as standing-reserve.
That which primordially unfolds the mountains into mountain ranges and courses through them in their folded togetherness is the gathering that we call “Gebirg” [mountain chain].
That original gathering from which unfold the ways in which we have feelings of one kind or another we name “Gemüt” [disposition].
We now name that challenging claim which gathers man thither to order the self-revealing as standing-reserve: “Ge-stell” [Enframing]. [17]​
We dare to use this word in a sense that has been thoroughly unfamiliar up to now.
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