Date: 02 Feb 97 11:16:27 EST
From: robert scheetz <76550.1064-AT-CompuServe.COM>
Subject: Heid & Praxis


>Analysing a game of chess is not playing chess.
>Why should we chess-players analyse our games?
                                                                                
>Is that the question?

Henk,
  Isn't "game" a singularly inappropriate
metaphor for Heidegger?  Let's just say, lots of people have 
always converged on the insight re the moral distinction btw
making history ("revolution") and writing history/
economics/pol sci/...("thinking" qua instrumentality).
For us, in the Kingdom of the West, it consists, archetypally,
in the difference btw Jesus and Aristotle (much as it bothers
me how MH resolutely resists the Jesus archetype); how these respective
themes ethically ramify ("presence") down the ages(temporalized beyng)
of the West.


>... i don't know if it 
>can be said that heidegger's texts invite 
>a reading quite that praxis-oriented.

Marlon,
   Doesn't Tom Blancato pretty well dispose the notion that
Heidegger "dialogues"; and as for "praxis": could anything 
be clearer than the gerundive, transformative/destructive,
revolutionary, etc. nature of Heideggerian "thinking"? 

Henry Sholer wryly..."suggest[s] that were Heid. not completely 
saturated by the question of Being, he might indeed have been lukacs (or 
better, a fine pastoral Catholic-poet )...." 

Which I take for more acute than he knows; for (with apologies for
my monomania here) the Heidegger corpus reads (to me, i.e. exogenic
pt of v) like epical mythopoiesis.  And further, it appears to me
that the most advanced readings (as Henry's, and Iain's, and Malcolms's... and
Michael's eggregiously) strain and torture (precisely in the manner of H) the
language toward eliciting an exquisitely subtle textual allusiveness....

...reminiscent of the "New Criticism" of the 40's, 50's and its "A
poem shld be palpable and mute...not mean, but be.

Bob Scheetz



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