Subject: Re: Heidegger in Germany
Date: Fri, 22 Jan 1999 23:38:06 -0500


Andrew Glynn writes:
> If you do get time I'd appreciate very much a quick English translation of
> Lotz' piece.  I find similar judgements of Heidegger common in N. America
> and seem to me to  be a poor attempt to revitalize a dead humanism.

and Michael adds:
>This quickness to judge is typical of a Heidegger-bashing style in Germany
>today. Instead of a careful study and thinking through of available texts
(most
>of the important texts are now published in the Gesamtausgabe), we find
global
>comments of a political nature. Just about everything in the passage quoted
is
>untenable on a closer pondering
>...
>That all these harsh, quick judgements 'wash' indicates the wound of
>National-Socialism which has paralyzed German thinking and led to a
post-war
>sell-out to Anglo-Saxon paradigms. So-called Critical Theory has propagated
a
>sociologization of Heidegger's thinking which serves as fertile soil for
people
>like Lotz.

Michael & Andrew,

little hard see'n humanism and crit theory treated so rudely...
kinda invites challenge, no?
like, what makes you guys so superior?

that's to say, h is kinda like rdg this excruciating
byzantine mystery always promising,
be the reader sufficiently heroic,
this ENORMOUS payout...
like the kgb files on the
rosenbergs/oppenheimer/fermi/bohr/szilard/fuchs/...
together with philby/burgess/mclean/blount...
and jfk assassination, j j angleton, colby...
and deep throat,
and linda tripp,
da big kahuna!...

only to have the author blandly announce at the end
that all this was preliminary...
and that's the best of it...
from here the trail leads deeper
into incoherence, vacancy...

so here's you guys 75 yrs later...
and da-sein still not off ari's tautological dime...
aggressively serene midst yer barrenness
of metaphysical de-struktion
clear to the horizon...?
and waiting some inconceivable and linguistically
unformulable deus ex machina?
i guess?

no peripity, no anagnorisis...jes nuthin!

nso, seriously, how can you blame one for
writing it down to spiritual exercises,
hermeneutic training, onto-theology...
the historico/socio-phenomenality of dadaist sensiblity
nso on...sumpin like dat...

all, i say all, perfectly independent of the craven
latter-day anti-nazi animus.

?

thanks for the trans, michael,
no offense...ya know,

bob








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