Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 17:27:52 +0200
Subject: Re: Self-evidently so ...


Cologne, 31 May 1998

Laurence Paul Hemming schrieb:
> Dear Mike,
>
> Your question about women is very interesting indeed.  Is 'woman' a mode of
> being of Dasein (in this sense so too would 'man' be)?  If it is, then the
> question of the "how" of woman as a mode of being of Dasein arises.  Which
> seems to me to be just right.  Isn't it De Beauvoir who says that "women do
> not exist at all, woman has to attain her existence?"  Certainly such an
> "attaining" as a "how" and the "now" of "woman discovering herself to need
> to be attained" would explain and historically place much current gender
> theory.  It also ties in with some remarks of Heidegger's about Geschlecht
> (which can be roughly translated as gender) in relation to Nietzsche and his
> Zarathustra-interpretation.
>
> Very fruitful for thinking about.

This is something I've done a lot of thinking about: womanliness, and 
esepecially manliness, as modes of beyng. So far only available in German at the 
artefact website (_kaum staendig noch_). 

Michael
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