Date: Fri, 05 Oct 2001 12:00:04 +0200
From: Rene de Bakker <rbakker-AT-bs18.bs.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Self-showing of hiddenness


At 09:05 4-10-01 -0500, you wrote:
>At 6:06 PM +0200 10/2/01, Rene de Bakker wrote:
>>  >4. Heidegger says in the Contributions, that philosophical
>>>     notions, without Grundstimmung, are merely clatter.
>>>     So, also the preparation for the entrance into fundamental
>>>     mood, must be linked to it. The only possible linkage from
>>>     outside seems to me: the missing of it, that is: experiencing
>>  >    the need (Not).
>
>A related passage from B & T came up in my seminar the other day and 
>for me deepened my understanding of the beginning of phenomenology in 
>the " Not":
>
>"The being of beings can least of all be something 'behind which' 
>something else stands, something which does not appear. (Das Sein des 
>Seinden kann am wenigsten je so etwas sein, "dahinter" noch etwas 
>steht. "was nicht erscheint") Two sets of scare quotes in one 
>sentence!  A sign of Heideggerian anxiety at approaching the Nothing. 
>The Nothing that cannot be named.. . But can be "indicated"--indeed 
>is indicated in " the missing of it.":
>
>"Essentially nothing else stands  'behind' the phenomena of 
>phenomenology." Thus making possible the experience of missing of it.
>
>"Nevertheless, what is to become a phenomenon can be concealed." ( 
>wohl aber kann das, was Phaenomen werden soll, verborgen sein.)  The 
>phenomenon shows itself by its capacity to be concealed. The self 
>showing takes place as a concealing before whom it might be shown ( 
>so to be seen.)
>
>"And precisely because phenomena are initially and for the most part 
>NOT given, phenomenology is needed." Phenomenology is uniquely and 
>peculiarly suited to this task of responding to the self-showing of 
>the NOT given, thus giving the appropriate form to a pure letting be 
>seen ( or as pure we who live in Language can get it)!
>
>What an extraordinary line of work!
>
>And so, once again, I open myself to Rene's rebuke for my overly 
>sunny intervention.

Allen,

The rebuke is in formal indication itself.
4702 M 7100


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