Date: Fri, 29 Jan 1999 14:19:53 -0500
Subject: RE: Heidegger and Joyce


         Reply to:   RE: Heidegger and Joyce
Ryan,

Gerald Bruns in his book "Heidegger's Estrangements" is also struck by the connection and has some interesting things to say about it.  After registering surprise at the fact that Heidegger writes as though Joyce and Becket don't exist, he says " There are no people in the later Heidegger."  He calls Heidegger "hermetic" and has a whole chapter on Heidegger's "hermeticism."  
To my mind, one of the strengths of Heidegger's hermeneutics is that he only "publicly" reads texts to which he and his students bear a special relationship,  which is analogous to a shared relationship between teacher and student to a sacred text.  So he is simultaneously  " inducting" his students into a way of reading-living-understanding "in relationship TO; in other words, the "hermeneutical relationship," that is " the being of language, that is the language of Being.

Hope this is helpful,

Allen

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

Ryan Stubblefield wrote:
>Has anything been written on Heidegger and James Joyce?
>
>Also, on a related yet seperate note, is it know weather Heidegger read
>Joyce at all?
>
>
>It seems to me that Joyce, especially in Ulysses (and also Finnegan's
>Wake), can be read as doing a similar thing in literature to what
>Heidegger did in philosophy.  For instance (among others), H's
>subject/object destruction, and the priority of engaged activity over
>theoretical contemplation  : the stream-of-consciousness method of Joyce
>which does not present the story in so-called 'objective' terms as does
>traditional literature.  >
>What do you think?
>
>Ryan Subblefield
>
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