File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2001/heidegger.0110, message 45


From: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com
Date: Sun, 14 Oct 2001 12:00:46 EDT
Subject: Re: Red Sails in the Sunset


I cannot but notice the uncanny description of Nietzsche himself in this 
rather odd aphorism concerning the "holyman." 

Particularly the physical and intellectual/ethical descriptions. N's own 
unhealthiness, his own doomsday-ism, and, of course, the 
recently-hearlded-on-this-list 'authority' drawn from a distinction between 
the holyman and others, fits Nietzsche, the last metaphysician, the last 
holyman; his "art of interpretation" so aesthetically determining.

I think that the question of the significance of the holy man today is 
nothing holy and much that is of world historical irony (& Nietzsche as 
prototype): 

the display of technology as the essence of value
the spectacle of technology as the economy of values (propaganda)
  e.g., the "holy" re-form-ation of world through technological means


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