Date: Sat, 6 May 1995 00:07:19 -0700 (PDT)
From: Lois Shawver <rathbone-AT-crl.com>
Subject: Re: Welcome to heidegger




On Sat, 6 May 1995 Bunkerphil-AT-aol.com wrote:

> Getting started is a problem.
> 
> You can probably read some of the later stuff profitably without knowing
> Being and Time.  Say, "Introduction to Metaphysics"
> 

I have read Being and Time a bit, although it would be fun to learn it a 
lot better.  His technical language does not yet stick with me.  I think 
that ontic refers to the being of idle talk, for example, but I'm not 
sure without trying to go back to my notes.  Also, I fumble with 
present-at-hand and ready-to-hand (??), but I have gotten the sense of 
the hammer being equipment.

  But I would like to get started in his later philosophy. I'm interested
in the linguistic turn.  I have a sense that Heidegger talks about the way
in which metaphor, or poetry, illuminates reality and turns it into Being. 
That's the process that captivates me.  But where to start.

..Lois 


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