Subject: Re: Poetic Thinking
Date: Sun, 24 May 1998 00:12:46 +0200


Dear Greg,

sure, sorry for the delay.
In  1981 (!) I published a paper (in German) on this matter with the title:
Heidegger ueber Sprache und Information, which was published in the
Philosophisches Jahrbuch 88 (19819 2, pp. 333-344. Here are some of my
sources (which should be revised now according to the new publications of
the GA):
(I give you only the German sources, as I have no other ones...)
- Die Frage nach der Technik, Teil 1, p. 22 (from 1953: probably Heidegger's
first mention of the concept of information)
Heid. asks for the possibility of a _free relationship_ (eine freie
Beziehung) towards technology (or _technics_...) Information is the way
nature presents itself as it is _asked_ and _posted_ (herausgefordert) by
modern (science and) technology. Information ist _eine (not the only one)
Weise des Entbergens_ (cf. W. Heisenberg: Das Naturbild der heutigen Physik)
(H. spoke this within a meeting of the Bayerische Akademie der Schoenen
Kuenste on Die Kuenste im technischen Zeitalter)
- Der Satz vom Grund, p. 203: Information is the way causality (more
precisely: the principle of causality: principium reddendae rationis
(ratione) (cf. Leibniz) presents itself today
see: Der Satz vom Grund (where: _Satz_ means not only proposition but also
to spring from the ground into the abyss...)
p. 58, 202
- Die onto-theo-logische Verfassung der Metaphysik (in: Identitaet und
Differenz), p. 42: with regard to the essence (i.e. the way technology today
_is_) of modern technology: Funktionalisierung, Perfektion, Automatisation,
Buerokratisierung, Information
- Hebel - der Hausfreund, p. 33: Language as an Instrument of information
(i.e. of understanding: Verstaendigung): this is the way language _is_ today
(the governing Vorstellung)
- Das Wesen der sprache, p. 161: language as experienced in poetry (to let
yourself say something coming from language) as opposed to the way your are,
when you talk _over_ or _about_ language (see: Wittgenstein: Wovon man nicht
sprechen kann, darueber muss man schweigen: Wittgenstein makes no difference
between a _sprechen ueber_ and a _sprechen von_ , I mean he does not makes
an explicit difference, although he speaks _von_ when he is writing this)
By the way: Heidegger says, that the way of language as information is
extremely useful in everyday life (also _metalanguages_ : ibid. p. 161): no
idea of denigrating other forms of relationship to language...
- Der Weg zur Sprache, p 243: the (hermeneutic) circle of language (as
poetry) and language (as information as one (not the only one) way languages
_circulates" (kreisen). This is the main point at: C.F. von Weizsaeckers:
Sprache als Information
- Wegmarken (p. VII): criticisms on the dominance of language as information
(gleichfoermige Speicherung von Informationen) and the lost of History and
Tradition
- Vier Seminare, p. 89 (notices/protocol  from Curd Ochwadt): _Der Verlust
des gemeinsamen Bodens zwischen der Vorstellung von Sprache als Information
und der dichterisch-denkerischen Erfahrung von Sprache wuerde stattfinden,
wenn der Mensch "keine anderen Notwendigkeiten" mehr empfinden wuerde,als
die "die die Erforderdnisse seiner Selbstherstellung hervorruffen." i.e.
experiencing language in the _poetry mode_ enables us to see/go beyond us
(decentralizing ourselves)
In some way Informationtechnology is the _photographic negative_ of the
Ereignis (I call it: the Information-Gestell)
kind regards
Rafael










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Datum: Freitag, 22. Mai 1998 20:15
Betreff: Re: Poetic Thinking


>Dear Rafael,
>
>Could you be a litle more specific about the works that you would sugget?
>
>Thanks,
>
>Greg Borgerson
>
>
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