Date: Tue, 26 Jan 1999 00:15:44 +0100
Subject: Re:  Heidegger in Germany


Cologne, 25 January 1999

h.vantuijl-AT-kub.nl schrieb:
> I do not think that writing about Heidegger is easy, in Germany or
> elsewhere on the continent. 

Henk,

In my opinion it is far too easy to write about Heidegger.
What takes time (years) and patience is to become in some way attuned with the 
fountain-head that passed through his hand and to understand some measure of it.

Then, and only then, one may have something worth saying, perhaps even something 
that H. overlooked utterly. Or one may have shed a little bit of light, not on 
Heidegger, but on (some aspect of) what it means for human being to be(come) 
Dasein. It's the thinking about the phenomena themselves that counts, not the 
books about Heidegger. H.'s texts may help to think through certain phenomena. 
H. the man, citizen, person, professor, rector, etc. is unimportant for this. 
But we may be grateful that we have been given these texts to learn from, that 
is, if we are of the opinion that philosophy still has an indispensable role to 
play in Western history. (And Western history is now irretrievably enmeshed in a 
global history.)

Coenaesthetically,
Michael
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