File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9802, message 112


Date: Mon, 23 Feb 1998 17:23:13 +0100
From: Henk van Tuijl <Henk.van.Tuijl-AT-net.HCC.nl>
Subject: Re: estimation and thinking


Allen Scult wrote:
> I assume the liberal attitude you mean here is not a good thing, 
> but I was wondering which of the "not good things" connoted by 
> liberal you were referring to here.

Liberal is a good thing imo. In the sense of using a text 
as a kind of building-stone for a new text (not unlike 
Derrida's note on a note in _Sein und Zeit_) - the way 
composers "cite" other composers, sculptors use tin cans, 
etc.

This liberal use might not only be seen as legitimated by 
hermeneutical over-estimation but also as the product of 
a specific kind of hermeneutical over-estimation. Cf. 
your example:

> Jeremiah creates a moment of prophecy out of interpretation 
> when he over-estimates certain moments in the Exodus account 
> of the covenant.

Just a thought, is hermeneutical over-estimation not the
only (true) kind of hermeneutics?

Kindest regards,
Henk




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