Date: Sun, 31 May 1998 11:53:18 -0700 (PDT)
Subject: Re: Self-evidently so ...


Michael Eldred wrote:

>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_).
>

To exist, then, would mean to possess attributes (the attributes of a man, a
woman, a tree, a hammer). Being, on the other hand, is attribute-less (or
attribute-lessness).

S.
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