Torgeir,
I’ve read miscellaneous portions of Heidegger over the years as well as a good
deal about him in several biographies. I don’t recall the position you refer
to so I’d be interested in where it appears and also when he wrote it.
Heidegger wasn’t “clear” about much. He was confronted by the Catholic church
early in his career. They offered to finance the rest of his education and
provide him with employment if he would focus upon Thomism. He very
reluctantly turned down that offer. He was just starting out, had a young
family and no money; so he struggled. Still, he did not make an enemy of the
Church. Later after the failure of his attempt to guide National Socialism
into the channels he preferred, he was careful about not making an enemy of
National Socialism and its leaders. And so throughout his life he obfuscated
to a considerable degree. It is interesting that philosophers and theologians
holding a variety of views (often opposing others who claim Heidegger as an
authority) have found sustenance in Heidegger.
Heidegger almost certainly didn’t hold to the view you describe at the end of
his life when he was reunited with the Church by means of a death-bed
confession.
Lawrence
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Dear all,
Modernism, Heidegger held, reached its destitution as it served to block our
access to the pull of oblivion. While Rilke showed how we are ushered
("ventured") forth to the Open, there is a complementary pull to a withdrawing
of existence. As we are drawn to this withdrawing, Heidegger noted, we become
marked by this very withdrawal. It is this gravitational pull of the withdrawal
that is denied by modernism, and hence makes it worthy of the term
"destitution".
What is the task of poetry today? Heidegger is very clear on this: it is to
prepare the ground for a renewed openess to the pull of oblivion.
Mvh. / Yours sincerely,
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