Date: Wed, 02 Dec 1998 10:04:38 -0500
From: Allen Scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: re: Thanksgiving?


         Reply to:   re: Thanksgiving?
Dear Henry,

Heidegger's play on Danken and Denken, and the whole business on "thinking the thanking thought" has always been one of my thanks-giving favorites too.  I believe it's the basic inspiration for Derrida's recent spate of talk about "The gift, " especially the gift of death.  In  rhetorical terms it has struck me that hermeneutical phenomenology is best expressed in what is known as epideictic speech, which is essentially a "hermeneutics of appreciation."  When you really begin to think in those terms, i.e. that when all is said and done, thinking thanks is what hermeneutical phemnology comes to, you see that  Heidegger's darkest moments in fact are closest to the light.

The actual text by the way, I believe is in  "Conversation on a Country Path," in a little book translated as "Discourse on Thinking."

Thanks,
Allen

Allen Scult
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http://www.mac.drake.edu/s/scult/scult.html

henry sholar wrote:
>I wanted to offer up a "Yank" (southern Yank?)
>grat-etude on our national day of thanks by reaching into the corpus
>of Martin and finding where he associates thinking and thanking.
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>Time has slowed my search.  Does anyone know where this idea may be >found?  Did Heidegger make this association?  I feel sure that he
>did, or if he didn't he should/would have=C9 >Kindest regards,
>Henry
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