Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2001 17:03:13 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: The misunderstanding statement


The "statement" I'm asking about is what Heidegger calls, "Die 
Aussage" in Section # 33 of SuZ.  For Heidegger "the statement" ( M 
and R translate "assertion.") is a "derivative mode of 
interpretation."  Heidegger goes on to distinguish between "the 
primordial 'as' of interpretation ("ermeneia" he calls it here) which 
truly understands circumspectively " and the "apophantical as" of the 
"Aussage."  The Aussage is derivative in that its ontological roots 
in the "primordial as" have been covered up by considerations of the 
ready-to-hand.So, Heidegger concludes,  the "expressed statement" no 
longer really "understands," no longer really "sees,"  but merely 
re-enacts the conventions of the "they."  What is required in order 
to reconnect the assertion with its ontological origins is, of course 
is the "existential-hermeneutical as" of Heidegger's analytic.

If I am understanding this correctly, language-as-rhetoric-- that is, 
as statements expressed "out of" pragmatic considerations--has lost 
the status which Heidegger ascribed to it in the twenties in his 
readings of Aristotle, when Verstehen was identified with 
Aristotelian Phronesis.  Now, understanding is embodied in the 
"speechless" discourse of thinking, responses to the call of 
conscience, correspondences with the "Voice of Being."  The dasein 
analytic opens the eyes and ears to ermeneia by seeing through 
rhetoric in its readiness-to-hand.

Any corrections of my misunderstanding statements here would be 
greatly appreciated.

Thanks,
Allen
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