[lit-ideas] Re: Why Heidegger?
- From: palma <palmaadriano@xxxxxxxxx>
- To: "lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx" <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 28 Mar 2014 13:25:16 +0200
yes, how do we re establish unmediated touch?, coe on dudettes & dudes, how
far does the performance go on?
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 ?
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> 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.
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> 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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