From: "henry sholar" <H_SHOLAR-AT-marta.uncg.edu>
Date:          Wed, 5 Aug 1998 13:42:53 EST
Subject:       Re: Henry



well said, Phil!
your return is certainly good news to me.

The connection of the metaphysics of presence
and the rule of representationalism, the Geganstand,
the pre-ordained determinancy of the object in science,
and so on... all of this is grounded on an assumption
that the meaning of Being is presence."  The grandiosity
of this assumption is interestingly displayed in the 
book _Identity and Difference_ inwhich Heidegger
spells out the onto-theo-logical pinnings of the 
metaphysics of presence.

kindest regards,
henry



>> 
>>  >> >Zimmerman (Eclipse of the Self) says the following:
>>  >> >
>>  >> >For Heidegger, for something "to be" means for it to be revealed,
>>  >> >uncovered, made manifest. Being refers not to a thing but to the
>>  >> event
>>  >> >of being manifest."
>>  
>>  
>     Hello, I'm back. I don't know if this will be good or bad news to you.
>I'd like to comment on the metaphysics of presence. My understanding is that
>this is the way of seeing the world that forms the basics for western
>metaphysics since the time of Plato. This is precisely the "tradition" the
>Heidegger proposed to deconstruct in the unwritten portion of B&T. My
>understanding of the term is that it refers to the operation of "stopping"
>time , stopping the happening of life and "fixing" the present time and then
>trying to reduce the object through further and further refinements of its
>being to arrive at last at the essence of the thing, the thing in itself.
>Contrast this with the "presencing" of the object, how it comes into a
>particular historical being, how aspectsof the thing are unconcealed but
>always at the expense of other aspects being concealed. The epochs of being
>play a role in the what of unconcealment as does the interests, projects and
>intentions of the seer. This analysis forms the basis for the critique of
>science as truth as it shows that both the epoch (the technological epoch) and
>the intentions of the "investigator" (the forestructure of the scientist),
>pre-determine the outcome even if the "scientist" believes he or she is merely
>observing and recording "objective" data.  
>     Later on Heidegger analysed the thing from the perspective of the
>fourfold, a rich and poetic understanding of the things themselves.
>
>     Yours,
>
>     Phil Sinaikin
>
>
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