[lit-ideas] Re: Heil Heidegger?


--- On Fri, 6/11/09, Mike Geary <atlas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> Heidegger first fascinated me when I read
> "everyone is always already enmeshed in a world" (or words
> to that effect).  

Yes, but _how_? If the room burns down am I so enmeshed I burn down with it? Am 
I so enmeshed I am completely determined by an outside world and, if so, how? 
Who denied we are (at all) enmeshed in the world? Not even Descartes (whose 
"cogito" is not completely unmoored from the world) or Berkley (who just denies 
the world is 'matter').

> One can only reflect the time and
> culture one is a product of.  Exactamento, Herr
> Heidegger.  

To an extent, yeh, sure, whatever. But who denied it? But does Martin (not the 
one in "Abraham, Martin and John") mean we are completely and determinedly a 
reflection of the time and culture? That we have no agency, however small, to 
change these?

If all Marty (not to be confused with Marti di Berg) did was offer such 
sweeping statements, without unpacking them into some more careful 
analysis...but his achievement must be much greater than that?

D






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