From: henry sholar <hwsholar-AT-uncg.edu>
Subject: Re: cont.
Date: Thu, 06 Aug 1998 13:43:52 -0500



On Wed, 5 Aug 1998 22:03:35 -0400 "Robert V. Scheetz"
<ay581-AT-yfn.ysu.edu> wrote:

>
>
> heideggers  misreading of the structure
> of the nihilist essence of the modern kingdom of the west...

this title:  alluding to heidegger's
prejudice agst amerika?


>
> his oblivion to the affective core:  egotism (how eloquent
> of its perfection,  the present picture of our leader, bill,
> pants to the knees, in a transport of narcissistic bliss...
> and venus, kissing the rod),
> and acquisitiveness (the bourgeoisie has torn off the pathetic veil of
> sentiment and reduced everything to money),
> of nihilism...

narcissism & greed, the (post)Christian values of 'merka
are misconstrued by heidegger



> in favor of the conventional antipathyforamerica cliche...
> i.e. things modern qua technology,
> factories/mines/and mills,
> instrumentalreasonantichrist,
> and, the masses,
> the anti-ideal...
> which besieges so harshly  bucolic/ doric reveries


as a structural techno-form americana
that is essentially
anti-classique



> ...the entire allegory culminating, like augustine and the vandals,
> in the anxious waiting the miraculous birth...


but still heidegger clings
to gnostic impressions of
waiting for beyng


> indicates, aftrall, a thinking not unlike hegels...
> far gone in nominalism (difference)


that given the always already totalizing effect
is still just more 19th centruy ugly german
romanticism

re-vamped for multi-national marketing=C9


> do a decrypted h reveal the last german idealist?
> anabaptist?
> scotist?
> ?

see above, bob---romanticist---
that wonderful oxymoron=C9

"German romanticist"

so said Hannah, y'know

did i hear you?
whaddayuh think?

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henry sholar
hwsholar-AT-uncg.edu



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