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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