File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_1998/heidegger.9803, message 56


Date: Fri, 06 Mar 1998 09:14:37 +0000
From: Allen Scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Archetypes


         Reply to:   Re: Archetypes

Henk van Tuijl wrote:

>
>Elsewhere Rilke _dichtet_:
>
>"Erde ist es nicht dies, was du willst: unsichtbar
>in uns erstehen?"
>
>Very inadequatly:
>Earth, isn't it this what you want: >to originate in us invisibly?
>
>Probably one has to be a poet, a seer, to have >"seen" this.
>
and to have the urge to "say the seeing."  Somewhere in the early twenties, heidegger reads the first sentence of the Metaphysics as " The urge to live in seeing, the absorption in the visible, is constitutive of how the human being is."  This "living in" is the basic factical movement of life, our "getting around," Umgang mit des Leben" which the poet has as a seeing-saying.  That is the basic way the poet lives in her seeing, gets around-- by means of a passionate commitment to say the seeing, an almost impossibility.  Somehow I get the idea that the way the philosopher lives in his seeing is more circumspect, that is,  his saying of his seeing as a way of getting around as a philosopher is not quite so close to the bone of language-- more "wiggle room."

Thanks,

Allen



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