[lit-ideas] Re: Disintigration of values, British TV, Heidegger

  • From: Mike Geary <jejunejesuit.geary2@xxxxxxxxx>
  • To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
  • Date: Wed, 10 Feb 2010 07:54:32 -0600

LH:
>>The “little red school house” embodied a good deal of “authenticity” in my
view, and the social experiments embody a “loss of being,” “loss of
values.”<<

Living in caves embodied a good deal of "authenticity" too.  My impression,
Lawrence, is that you're deeply disgruntled with life because the world is
not the way you remember it being when you were growing up.  The "social
experiments" you reference, I take it to be anything you disapprove of.
Me?  I  disapprove of the Heideggerian authentic traditions that permitted
the brutal murder of 6 million human beings for the purpose of keeping the
Aryan race  "authentically Aryan."  It's all made up, Lawrence, but some of
the made-up things over time have proven to be more conducive to civil
society than others.  If you believe that the West is going to hell in a
hand basket, well, the Islamic fundamentalists agree with you.  They hunger
for the truly authentic world of Koranic teachings.  Better that the world
be destroyed than continue as an affront to Allah.  And so, goodbye, sweet
prince.







On Wed, Feb 10, 2010 at 1:41 AM, Robert Paul <rpaul@xxxxxxxx> wrote:

>  Lawrence Helm wrote
>
>  Robert,
>
> Upon rereading your note, I see I didn’t address everything.  As to your
> criticism of the sentence, I put something in brackets to make better sense
> of it, but I assume the fault is the translator’s (Linda Asher’s) and not
> Kundera’s.  I’m afraid I didn’t find this fault interesting enough to
> provide a “sic,” and I probably should have.  Or perhaps I should have dwelt
> upon that sentence a bit to show what I assumed it meant.
>
> No, Kundera doesn’t specify which values he is referring to, but bear in
> mind that he was mightily influenced by Heidegger.  His “loss of values”
> could well be considered Kundera’s rough equivalent to Heidegger’s “loss of
> being.”   The “loss of being” was a subject Kundera dwelt upon in some of
> his novels, e.g., “The Unbearable Lightness of Being.”
>
> [remainder of Lawrence's post omitted]
>
> Thank you for this thoughtful and enlightening reply. I cannot respond to
> it now, for I type slowly, and need some rest.
>
> Until tomorrow, then.
>
> Robert
>
>

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