From: "David Stanway" <david.stanway-AT-easynet.co.uk> Subject: Jemeinigkeit Date: Sat, 19 Sep 1998 12:58:40 +0100 I've been reading the list for awhile. Occasionally stimulating, usually way over my head. But I wonder if anyone could help me here. I'm not a specialist in Heidegger, but the notion of Jemeinigkeit - which I came across some years ago while reading Derrida - fascinates me. What place do you think in-each-case-mineness has in Heidegger? How does it determine/is it determined by our relationship towards death? Specifically I am working on a piece about belonging, about the formation of groups and the exclusion of others from those groups. I am particularly interested in the social reflex which says, "Mind your own business, you don't understand us" - a reflex which applies to individuals and societies, which can apply to a wife-beater as well as a theocracy. Do you think Heidegger's Jemeinigkeit offers any illumination for me here? Thanks David --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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