From: "Allen Scult" <tristamigistus-AT-hotmail.com>
Subject: Re: misunderstanding the statement
Date: Sat, 30 Jun 2001 11:22:26 -0500




Rene,

I’m at an island, which has brought on a mood, not unlike that 
shared/communicated by Razumov-Conrad-Kenneth-Rene some threads ago.  What 
can be shared by speech, what can be recognized, re-cognized, known once 
again as it was first known, is what IS,  even as what IS for us is 
constituted by such repeatable moments of speech.  These moments of speech 
play off of the expressedness of understanding.  Such shared understanding ( 
indeed there is no other kind!) is "possible only in that it lies before us 
as something expressible" ( the foregoing, an approximate translation of". . 
. was allein so moeglich ist, dass es als Aussprechbares vor-leig"[#32, 
SuZ]).

The bright sunlit solitude of this place seems to encourage such moods of 
recognition.  Perhaps because the moments I see and hear have been repeating 
themselves forever, recognized by successive generations of Chippawa, 
French, even perhaps the all-too-pristinely white Scandanavians.  As 
Heidegger puts it, authentic historicity shows itself by our being able to 
return to it again and again in its "how."  And as you say so well( 
repeating a re-cognition I am able to recognize and so perhaps repeat), in 
philosophy, the "how" links the saying to the stream of thinking-saying from 
which it springs( beginning this round from GA 45:

.>"The Wesenserkenntnis must - if it is to be communicated (Mit-Teilung) -
itself be executed again by the one, that was to pick it up.
More precisely, it can't be communicated, in the sense of the
circulation of a sentence, the content of which is grasped simply,
without reproducing the grounding and extraction. Wesenserkenntnis
must always by everyone anew be extracted (nachvollzogen), in the
authentic sense be CO-extracted (MITvollzogen)."

Therefore, when I circulate something Heidegger wrote, f.i.: Das Sein is es
selbst, I am obligated, to re-enact the grounding of what I take it is that
<is said here. If I don't do that, I just wake up sleeping dogs.

But when you do do that, you awaken the Dasein within ourselves.

Allen

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