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 ----------------------------------- drs. René de Bakker Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam Afdeling Catalogisering tel. 020-5252368 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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