From: "henry sholar" <H_SHOLAR-AT-marta.uncg.edu>
Date:          Fri, 7 Aug 1998 9:09:44 EST
Subject:       Re: cont.



Rafael,

thank you for clarifying your reactions and
i am grateful that you have taken the time to do so. 

although i am not often in dialogue with you,
i am always rewarded by your contributions
 on this list.

i am also most grateful that my intentions and
apologies for crassness on my part are accepted 
and understood.

kindest regards,
henry

(ps) and now we await  Herr Scheetz
to compose some helpful "Re: cont."
perhaps.




>
>it is difficult for germans to take a calm view with regard to this (not
>yours but scheetz's) kind of anti-german (indirectly: anti-heideggerian, but
>taking h. as a representative a some kind of german ideology) epistles.
>Being not german but confronted with the situation of this country since
>almost thirty years, it is for me easier to take a view which is a view from
>the inside and from the outside at the same time
>I like ironic style too, and I find your kind of reaction to scheetz's
>epistle most correct (politically? anyway not impolite at all)
>I would like to be able to give such an answer as you did.
>I took my time in order to think whether to make a comment or not.
>The allusions to _Jewish matters_ (from a non-German) should show that
>anti-germanism can be as offensive as anti-semitism or anti-americanism, but
>not to me, of course. I'd like to hear Bob making such kind of _trance-like
>epistles_ with regard to his own culture. I mentioned Rorty (which I like in
>many regards), because he is someone Bob could take (in a self-critical way)
>in order to make a _trance-like epistle_ of him (indirectly of the _american
>ideology_). If this is done  by _you_ from within your system it would be
>probably not _policitally correct_ (although it could be very polite!). I
>mean: how critical are american intellectuals with regard to their own
>culture/system? My allusion to _Jewish matters_ was an effort to try to take
>one extremely difficult matter as a possible example for this kind of
>_trance-like epistles_, just in order to put it in a clear (!) way. Sorry if
>this was _obscure_ or _a little troubling_ to you. I suspected that any (!)
>mention of this would provoke reactions. So I apologize myself if my
>intention was misunderstood.
>kindest regards
>rafael



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