Date: Wed, 28 Feb 1996 23:21:38 -0500 (EST)
Subject: Re: MB: Heidegger


Well he does talk of Heidegger's unforgivable but not inconsistent Naziism,
and he eschews all Heideggerean talk of authenticity and the priority of being.
Levinas and Blanchot both oppose the French pre-originary murmur of the il y a
to the Heideggerean donation of being in the es gibt.  There can be no doubt
that Heidegger is more than useful for Blanchot in specifying that to which
alterity--autrui, l'autre nuit--is other.

William Flesch