Date: 	Sat, 10 Aug 1996 14:56:54 -0400
From: paul.murphy-AT-utoronto.ca (Paul Murphy)
Subject: a short note on H's insouciance


Robert Scheetz writes of Heidegger's "insouciance to the circumambient
dark". A legitimate observation. I will say that this insouciance is
sometimes to Heidegger's credit: the repeated dismissals of racialist /
biologist 'thinking' in the _Nietzsche_ volumes sets Heidegger apart from
some of his more blood-thirsty contemporaries (unfortunate remark in
_Rektoratsrede_ on "Blut und Erde" excepted). Whether language as badge of
identification (and benchmark for exclusion) is less contentious is still
up for debate (then and now, as ex-premiere ministre du Quebec Jacques
Parizeau's inflammatory fulmination against la vote ethnique demonstrates).
Best regards,
Paul N. Murphy
Graduate Student, University of Toronto




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