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Date: Sat, 21 Feb 1998 12:03:34 +0000
From: Allen Scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re:   holism & hermeneutics (German underground)



         Reply to:   Re:   holism & hermeneutics (German underground)
Michael wrote

>
>. We are holding a symposial >feast >in the waiting room of a large railway station, with many coming and going, >some >of whom make comments and interject now and again, with a more sedentary group >to one side which has become more interested in the conversation itself than in >the destination they originally had in mind.

You would think  people would have something better to do than hang about in railway stations waiting for some piece of an ongoing conversation to pick up on and make something of.  Yet the setting couldn't be more perfect for a certain kind of listening characteristic of phenomenology. That is, listening for a fomally indicating incompleteness.

While sitting in the waiting room waiting for the next "derivative assertion," I was reading a recent piece in Man and World by Evan Streeter entitled " Heidegger's formal indication..."  He makes an interesting connection between Heidegger's formal indication and Husserl's occassional expression.  Both seem to point to an already ongoing indication of being-in-the-world.  The "direction" of the already ongoing expression-indication is what hermeneutical phenomenology tries to "pick up on" and explore.  Without of course bringing the "apparent "object of the conversation to completion.  The object of hermeneutical phenomenology being the direction of the converstaion itself emnanating from the thing itself that continually gives rise to the conversation.

Anyone else want a coffee?  I'll be right back.

Allen

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         Reply to:   Re:   holism & hermeneutics (German underground)

Michael wrote

>
>. We are holding a symposial
>feast
>in the waiting room of a large railway station, with many coming and going,
>some
>of whom make comments and interject now and again, with a more sedentary group
>to one side which has become more interested in the conversation itself than in
>the destination they originally had in mind.

You would think people would have something better to do than hang about in railway stations waiting for some piece of an ongoing conversation to pick up on and make something of. Yet the setting couldn't be more perfect for a certain kind of listening characteristic of phenomenology. That is, listening for a fomally indicating incompleteness.

While sitting in the waiting room waiting for the next "derivative assertion," I was reading a recent piece in Man and World by Evan Streeter entitled " Heidegger's formal indication..." He makes an interesting connection between Heidegger's formal indication and Husserl's occassional expression. Both seem to point to an already ongoing indication of being-in-the-world. The "direction" of the already ongoing expression-indication is what hermeneutical phenomenology tries to "pick up on" and explore. Without of course bringing the "apparent "object of the conversation to completion. The object of hermeneutical phenomenology being the direction of the converstaion itself emnanating from the thing itself that continually gives rise to the conversation.

Anyone else want a coffee? I'll be right back.

Allen
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