Date: Mon, 01 Oct 2001 18:02:51 +0200
From: Rene de Bakker <rbakker-AT-bs18.bs.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Self-showing of hiddenness


Michael Eldred wrote: 

... we initially don't know (as Rene cites) whether we're going in or out.

Michael,

1. It's not that we don't know whether we're going in or out.
    It's, that in the fundamental mood of wonder (Grundstimmung
    des Erstaunens) one doesn't know out, and one doesn't know in. 
    
2. This position is not a transitory phase. On the contrary.
    GA45 leads to this Grundstimmung of Erstaunen,
    as do the Contributions to Verhaltenheit (restraint)
    A mood can never be fully understood, even less be
    jumped over. (That would be Hegel: from dark to light;
    Heidegger goes from light to dark)  

3. Therefore any speaking about the Grundstimmung is forbidden.
   (GA45, p. 2). Bringing in the few, midwives of historical births etc.,
   is completely out of place here, to put it mildly. 

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).

5. This is not possible without Nietzsche. (p. 126)  
    And p. 136: 
    
    [...] only when we ride out the work of Nietzsche,
    instead of circumventing it, only then is our questioning on its
    pointed-at track (Bahn), only then do we understand the reflection
    (Besinnung) upon the first beginning, and also upon that, which
    didn't happen in it.

Rene


 
    
    
     
    



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