[lit-ideas]
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:28:55 +0200
the problem by any is not having read the text
ME NE FO UN BAFFO CON LO STANTUFFO
in which Heidegger explained that he likes only to play mabuse with lohmann
On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 10:57 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>wrote:
> How do we 're-establish unmediated touch with the familiar objects whose
> antics make our sentences and opinions true or false. ?' Is that even a
> correct interpretation of Heidegger ?
>
> O.K.
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> On Thursday, March 27, 2014 6:44 PM, Omar Kusturica <omarkusto@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Perhaps I should clarify my original question. The National Socialist
> Party of Germany had a membership of around 8 million at its peak. Being a
> Nazi at the time certainly does not make a person special or interesting,
> and proposals to discuss a middle-ranking Party member only make sense if
> he was important or interesting in some way. I presume that it must be
> thought that he was important as a philosopher. It is this assumption that
> I am skeptical of.
>
> O.K.
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> On Thursday, March 27, 2014 6:21 PM, Phil Enns <phil.enns@xxxxxxxxx>
> wrote:
> Alongside the importance of Heidegger's essay, 'The question concerning
> technology', which discusses instrumental reason and the role of technique
> as Chris mentions, I would also add Heidegger's work on language in *Being
> and Time* as well as his later essays, such as 'The way to language'. In
> these writings, Heidegger explores the ways in which language is
> constitutive of understanding and the intelligibility of the world, not as
> a tool or lens with which we encounter the world, as though language were
> something through which we picture, represent or refer to the world, but
> rather as being human. Whether it is in his discussion of how language is a
> necessary condition for human life in the world, or the way in which
> language precedes our understanding of the world, Heidegger tries to show
> us that language is much more than a means of communication. While the
> later Heidegger does occasionally indulge in a mystification of language,
> in both the early and later writings, his aim, to borrow a phrase from
> Davidson, is to re-establish unmediated touch with the familiar objects
> whose antics make our sentences and opinions true or false.
> How any of this relates to Heidegger's involvement with
> Nazism, strikes me as being a very different kind of question. I come down
> on the side of arguing that consideration of the writings of a philosopher
> can be independent of consideration of their politics or personal life.
> Heidegger is a favourite philosopher of mine, but given what I know of his
> treatment of Husserl, I don't think I would have enjoyed sharing his
> company. Now, Hume, on the other hand, with him I can imagine playing
> billiards and drinking scotch.
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> Feeling a warmish wind sweeping across the steppes,
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> Phil Enns
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