Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 13:32:13 +0100
Subject: Re: Heidegger in Germany


Rafael,

You write:
> By the way, the course [GA55] is on a Greek thinker and it takes some 390 pages,
> from which this two remarks should not be used as an _abstract_ for all what
> is being said there: take for instance the analysis of _psyche_ in p. 281 in
> the sense of opening for the open. The whole lecture concernes the relation
> between Logos and _logos_, or, in the language of modernity, between subject
> and object (p. 296). Human soul goes, no not _deep_ says H. (_tief_ greek_:
> bathus) but _wide_ signaling and being signaled into the wide (_weitweisend_
> and _weitgewiesen_), so that we are never sure what we collect (logos) in
> our soul (as truth) (p. 305) etc. etc. All this (and much more) has really
> nothing (!) to do with NS ideology. It is the opposite of it.

This is the best statement of the problem thusfar.
Heidegger on Heraclitus contains a wealth of insights, 
of rediscovering century old questions, etc. etc. At the
same time we are confronted suddenly, somewhere between
all these brilliant thoughts, with Heidegger's conviction
that there is somehow a relation between German thinking 
and saving the world - in the midst of the second World
War! Is this just a loose thought? Or is it the context 
in which we should read GA55 as a whole? How are we to
decide?

Thanks,
Henk




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