File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0109, message 83


Date: Sun, 16 Sep 2001 15:29:25 -0700
From: Michael Staples <michael-AT-intersubjectivestudies.com>
Subject: Re: Chomsky, etc. "Understanding is always attuned."




Michael Eldred wrote:

> The kind of thinking Heidegger initiated is not much help for the abovementioned
> kinds of understanding. It provides no explanations or _Erklaerungen_, which only
> work by shedding clarifying light (er-klaerendes Licht) on what is still obscure
> in terms of what is already in the light. List members are probably getting tired
> of me saying that thinking from being has "precious little" (das Geringe) to
> offer.

I have always felt that this kind of understanding held (or, perhaps, 'should hold') a
special significance for the field of psychology (my field). There is a "trickle-up"
(if you're Chomsky) or "trickle-into-the-light" (if you are Heidegger?) effect that
addresses its significance in the process of explanation. True, it provides no
specific explanation. But it may provide the foundation for all explanation....and so
the explanations from different worlds (Islamic, Christian...etc.).

> We are always resonating with
> world-opening. This makes Dasein an essentially musical way of being.

Another fine thing to say, Michael! My recently deceased Aunt was the head of the
Department of music theory at Columbia University for many years. We had many
discussions about the idea that the structure of the psyche (our way of being?) might
be at room musical. I had not made the link, for some reason, to the use of the term
"resonating" in quite this way.


Michael S.



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