The play of the world and the problematic of a non-metaphysical direction of thought; the entanglement within this phrase does not imply a connection between the play of the world and the problematic of a non-metaphysical direction of thought, which simultaneously - and primarily - heralds the play of the world as a sign of a non-metaphysical direction.
Moving beyond this perspective, which - following Nietzsche's reading of Heraclitus - was embraced by Heidegger, Fink, Axelos, and Derrida, our research considers that the play of the world does not constitute a sign of a non-metaphysical direction of thought, and concludes that the problem of finding a thought that will signify a non-metaphysical direction cannot, as the study of the thought of the play of the world has shown us, be resolved as long as we speak of the problem of a non-metaphysical thought about the being of the world and ignore the problem of a non-metaphysical being of thought; as long as we ignore, or underestimate, that the overcoming of metaphysics in the being of thought is the primary condition for thought to be beyond any form of metaphysics.
The overcoming of metaphysics regarding the being of thought is achieved through the presence of the abyss (Abgrund) in the being-foundation (Grund) of thought; it is, therefore, on the one hand, the shifting of the presence of the abyss from thought about being to the being of thought, and, on the other hand, the primacy of the abyss regarding the being of thought in relation to a thought about being as foundation-abyss. And this abyss, the abyss of anonymity, cannot be said to signify a non-metaphysical direction, only abusively; because the presence of the abyss in the being-foundation of thought does not refer thought anywhere - nor does it direct it anywhere.