File spoon-archives/bataille.archive/bataille_1999/bataille.9902, message 278


From: Ariosto Raggo <df803-AT-freenet.carleton.ca>
Subject: Re: Hiding from Heidegger
Date: Mon, 22 Feb 1999 11:20:29 -0500 (EST)


> 
> 
>  Ari, > You are right, i have done everything to stand still and
firm, the time has come to fall in to Heidegger. I was Very impressed
by some of the posts I read on the Heidegger lists this weekend and
today I will rush off to the nearest bookshop and stock up. Fuck me, I
am going to regret this one. > > rich. > >


 Heidegger and his readers
come along and every hides. This is very understandable but that post
on _Gessalenheit_ is important to look over a couple of times and keep
in mind what Micheal and John F say. I am preparing some things on the
metaphysical foundations of logic and the phenomenological method that
he mentions in the intro which is very similar to what we were saying
about Kierkegaard a while back. The book is good because it's a lecture
course and he does lead you by the hand and does show clearly what
authentic philosophy is about. He says first of all, to get into it a
little bit as a warm up, that there is a voluntary striving and leaning
which means "to love in the sense of to be concerned about something
trustingly." This "something" is not a "what" since we are not studying
a thing, something that is present-at-hand but what seems to be a
"nothing" and more precisely is that sort of experience we encounter in
anxiety or boredom and this is what is constantly and resolutely being
overcome, transcended in a kind of being-towards-death or to our owmnmost
possibility. So it's like the Lacanian little a or even Kant's
mysterious X.

So philosophy involves not a search for historical facts, dates, and
playing around with problems and getting lost in the details but
involves a *simplicity* which remember Kierkegaard says is the most
difficult thought for scholars. This is a "historical recollection" as an
absorption in a _Augenblickliche Besinnung_, a "present-focused
reflection," or "moment-focused reflection." It is through this resolve
to focus on the here and now that we get a clarified 'idea' of
philosophy that is at once "recollective and focused on the present"
or involves from the beginning a meditative practice

Ariosto


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