File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0109, message 17


Date: Mon, 03 Sep 2001 17:40:02 +0200
From: Rene de Bakker <rbakker-AT-bs18.bs.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: rene and philosophy


Kenneth,

If there will be a book ever, I'll send you a copy. I'll have one 
natural reader in the US.

In GA45, as in other lectures, the regular course is interrupted by
a repetiton of the last hour. What's so remarkable with these
doubles, is that in them Heidegger doesn't refer directly to the previous
exposition, falling back to its concepts, developping them further, as we
the others, 
the philosophers, would do. If I would write a book, it would grow
steadily, that is 
I would have the illusion it did, because what is growing like that cannot
be thinking, but is history. 

But Heidegger. Every repetition is completely new, original thinking,
no falling back to earlier versions. Directly from the fountain (_his_
fountain: he said that the question of the sense/Sinn was his question,
and only his)

Nietzsche similar. Introducing european nihilism in the book WtP,
he writes: it cannot not come: necessity itself is at work here.
How can he say that? Because Nietzsche has thought himself
into the whole of what is. And because it is 'nothing' that surrounds
the ring of the whole.   
 

By chance, I read this summer in Stendhal: 'On style' 
(Le style, c'est l'homme)  Stendhal was Nietzsche's first man
till he discovered Dostoevsky and his god-man. (Demons)

The staccato, although probably irritating the most, reminded me again of
the search for sense in Pindaros and Georgiades' wonderful little book.
Frank Edler, who is writing a continuing story on Heidegger and German 
classical philology, in the last part 3a
(http://www.janushead.org/3-2/edler.cfm):
Heidegger, Language, and Revolution, indicates what kind of revolution 
Heidegger had in mind. Let me just point out to those who are interested 
in the prelogical, the expression 'the prelogical logos'.

The strife of language, whether German is necessary to understand Heidegger
(it is), is insofar also vain, that, when penetration has succeeded, you'll
have to break
out of it too in the end and make something your own. But not becoming
yourself,
but becoming a self, in H's sense. Might I succeed, then you'll have your
copy.
But I'll probably have to breakin some more rules.

thanks, Kenneth, you're in the back of my mind, since I'm here,

Rene









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drs. René de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
tel. 020-5252368              


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