Date: Tue, 4 Sep 2001 18:52:48 -0500
From: djschenk <djschenk-AT-blue.weeg.uiowa.edu>
Subject: Heidegger's Philosophy of Time


Hello.

Well, the re-subscription efforts have met with happy success.

I have had several replies to my request for reviewers and for all of them
I am grateful.  A few replies cause me to believe I should refine my
request, though, lest I unwittingly lead people astray.

First and foremost, persons temperamentally suspicious of metaphysics are
unlikely to find anything enjoyable in my work.  Quite simply, metaphysics
is what I do, along with a dose of philosophy of science and philosophy of
religion.  I do contend that metaphysics is also what Heidegger did, at
least during the properly phenomenological phase of his career.

Similarly, I have an unpleasant suspicion that list members who are
emotionally hostile toward analytic philosophy would become irritated
with me for wasting their time.  I took my request to this list because
the analytic lists tend to be dismissive of phenomenology in general and
of Heidegger in particular, but my memory of this list is that it has at
least a few members with equally cavalier "party loyalties."  The nature
of my work is such that I am likely to offend such loyalties on both sides
of the analytic/continental divide, so please be forewarned.

Third, I am confident that people who consider themselves “post- (whatever)
theorists” would want to print out a hard copy of the chapter just so they
could burn it and stomp all over the ashes with a pair of Doc Marten’s.  I
welcome such reviewers, of course, but I figure I ought to give them fair
warning about this.  I still don’t know why people’s emotions get so
stirred up over this one, but it is something I have noticed.

Finally, I’d like to use the list for a moment to try to e-locate two
people who might still be subscribed.  As I recall, Malcolm Riddoch and
Anthony Crifasi are men whose views on Husserl and Heidegger would make
this chapter especially interesting for them, because I still haven’t made
up my mind as to whether or not Heidegger ever succeeded in making the
concept of originary temporality clear enough to serve as an explanatory
ground for the phenomena of transcendence and, by extension,
intentionality.  If not, then perhaps he failed in his attack on the
Husserlian thesis of intentionality, and this would have sweeping
consequences for continental philosophy.  Of course, I am also very
interested in knowing how Malcolm and Anthony are doing and what they’ve
been up to lately.  Neither of them has posted to the list in a while
and their clarity and acumen has been missed.


Sincerely and all that,

David Schenk
Department of Philosophy
University of Iowa



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