From: henry sholar <hwsholar-AT-uncg.edu>
Subject: Re:  encryption?
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 07:23:44 -0500



On Thu, 6 Aug 1998 00:18:22 +0200 Michael Eldred <artefact-AT-t-online.de> 
wrote:

> Cologne, 05 August 1998
> 
> henry sholar schrieb:
> > what do you mean by encryption, Michael?  
> 
> Henry, encryption and decryption is an attempt of mine to translate "Verbergung" 
> and "Entbergung". Unverborgenheit is H.'s translation of _alaetheia_. Entbergen 
> is the happening of disclosure in which beings come to appear in the open (the 
> openness of the truth of being). In German there is some resonance between 
> Verborgenheit (hiddenness) and Geborgenheit (shelteredness, safeness). Entbergen 
> has a connotation of de-sheltering, ex-posing, not just revealing.
> 
> Encryption and decryption should be thought here not at all in the usual English 
> sense of encoding, decoding, etc., but from the stem "krypt-". _kryptein_ in 
> Greek means "to hide" in all its shades of meaning. A crypt is a hidden place 
> underneath the church which can also be a place of shelter. Encryption thus 
> connotes a sheltering hiddenness, whereas encryption signifies a coming to stand 
> out in the open, being ex-posed in and to the truth of beyng. Ex-posed, beings 
> as such pose for under-standing. The centrality of "standing" words in H.'s 
> thinking is noteworthy (stehen, stellen, stand...).
> 
> Make any sense?
> Michael


Michael, 
yep, it is a fine interpretation.  i think i may have confused Michael 
S, who was using encryption to speak of the hiddennness of Beyng.  I 
guess i would say that the very encryption of beyng reveals a lack of 
interpretation.  and it seems to me that this hiddenness of beyng may 
or may not be the nothing, that the lack of interpretation may or may 
not be nothing. but i have passed beyond my horizon of meaning into the 
encryptedness at this point.

also, i am attracted to two 
peripheral movements:  Dasein's ownmost-potentiality-potentiality
(ie, being-towards-death,the crypt); and the cryptic nature of this 
cybernetic web of communication with which we have somehow 'met'.
Of course there is great hiddenness in each of those activities!

thank you,
henry
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