From: "Tudor Georgescu" <tgeorgescu-AT-home.nl>
Subject: RE: existentialism and nuclear war
Date: Sun, 17 Jun 2001 17:00:33 +0200


I like enthusiasm, Nate. It originally meant a state of being among the
gods, 'in the gods', infused with the gods. The topic of Angst is probably
too big for brief e-mail exchanges, but I can take up your reasoning here.
No state of affairs, including the spectre of annihiliation by nuclear war,
can trigger an experience of Angst.
True, anxiety is not for mass, but for the elite. Only a cultivated human ma
feel anxitey, for anxiety is the clash between the virtual world he is
addicted to (philosophy, novels, poetry, music, drawings, etc.) and the
objectual reality.
 Angst is not a mood that can be caused by a being (a state of affairs, too,
is a being). Angst is the mood that overcomes us in which nothingness itself
reveals itself in its uncanniness to Dasein. Angst crops up suddenly out of
nothing. It could be a threat of nuclear war, but it could just as well be a
totally innocuous everyday situation in which Angst unexpectedly 'visits'
and knocks the ground of meanings away from under Dasein's feet.

Meeting anxiety is not pleasant! But is worth!

Tudor Georgescu

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