From: "Stuart Elden" <Stuart.Elden-AT-clara.co.uk>
Subject: Re: Heidegger in Germany
Date: Thu, 17 Dec 1998 07:51:57 -0000


I've just read Politics of Security by Michael Dillon. Though not an
ontology of war, he does try to think the notion of security (which
obviously has links to why countries go to war) from a Heideggerian
perspective.

Anyone else familiar with this work?

Best wishes

Stuart


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From: bob scheetz <rscheetz-AT-cboss.com>
To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
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Date: Thursday, December 17, 1998 06:59
Subject: Re: Heidegger in Germany


>kinda up tom's alley, and apropos the topic of the hour...
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>the current bloodying of baghdad irresistably suggests
>a problematic, which, given heid's bio, one marvels at
>never having seen formally posed: the ontology of war...
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>surely a dasein event, a clearing for being,
>of a comparable prestige with lang & poetry...
>(indeed,  with its opposite, love, compassing practically
>the totality of the occupants of that hse qua poetry)
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>so...?
>would  weapons be equipmental, and war a taking
>care of...(the anglo-merkan bourgeois imperium)?
>a resoluteness toward death?...a casting of being in the
>form of the impossibility of mitsein?
>or an ekstasis of non-subjective narcissist/egoist dasein?
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>bob
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