[lit-ideas] Re: Geary, Husserl, Oshevsky and Speranza
- From: "Walter C. Okshevsky" <wokshevs@xxxxxx>
- To: lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx, Mike Geary <gearyservice@xxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sat, 1 Feb 2014 16:58:16 -0330
Misha,
What with all such profuse existentialist outpourings and a milestone birthday
(you sure its not a kidneystone birthday?), what else can I say but: S Dzyen
Rozhdzenyum!
Na zdarovye tovarish, Valodsya
(At this point in the proceedings, you empty your glass and hurl it forcefully
into the fireplace. The finer the crystal, the better, since bourgeois
commodities are far from kosher. Nyet!
Quoting Mike Geary <gearyservice@xxxxxxxxx>:
> Speranza's got it right. Geary does indeed know of Husserl and of his deep
> influence on Heidegger. However, Geary admits to not having read anything
> of Husserl's but only of Heidegger. Geary was fascinated by Heidegger
> because Geary had always already thought what Heidegger had said: that
> we are "always already immersed in a world". Such immersion explains a lot
> of prima facie stupidity in the world -- he can't help it, that's just the
> world that he was always already born into. We all get to say that about
> the Other since, apparently, no one is ever born into a world in which
> he is known to himself to be stupid. Strange that Heidegger didn't think
> of that when he thought Nazism was so great. Geary started but never
> finished "Being and Time", he did however read goopoos of essays by
> Heidegger and though Geary was never sure that he was reading Heidegger
> correctly, still he thought himself brilliant for having done so. Geary
> likes the notion of "languaging being". He likes the notion that man is
> quite likely the only creature aware of existence and of his own "being".
> It is said that death brings awareness of being, but I disagree -- it is
> the awareness of existence that gives birth to the notion of death. The
> notion of "being," I believe (underscore that), arises through his likely
> unique ability to conceptualize existence through language. Or something
> like that. That strikes Geary as being far more poetic than philosophical,
> but that's OK with Geary because Geary would rather feel his way through
> life than spend it thinking that he knows what the fuck he's talking about.
>
> I turn 70 tomorrow. Still hoping to prove that I wasn't a waste of my
> amazingly patient father's sperm and my deeply philosophical Mom's
> ovulation. Thanks, Mom. Thanks, Dad. Thanks Sein, Thanks Zeit. Thanks
> to you all for your forbearance lo these many years.
>
> J. Michael
>
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