Date: Wed, 17 Oct 2001 11:08:23 -0500
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: thuggery


At 5:31 PM +0200 10/17/01, Rene de Bakker wrote:
>At 07:21 17-10-01 EDT, Henry wrote:
>>Thank you for that. 
>>I do appreciate the thuggery of your contributions on this list,
>>as a matter of fact, in a wishy-washy way.
>
>Henry,
>
>I think, the breakdown of the subject is quite a thuggery affair.
>Otherwise it remains just a topic for wishy-washy subjects.


So thuggery is a rhetorical technique for the breaking down of 
subjects in their wishy-washiness.  It almost seems as if some 
version of it is essential to accomplishing the task, the 
task-in-the-world, i.e. the wordly-worldly task, of phenomenology.

>
>Grundstimmung is such a something that, if you have acquired it,
>you won't talk about it.

You can only somehow "reflect" it? As an attitude toward.  But this 
attitude can only show itself as a 'correction' of the orientation 
the other seems to be taking.  And so sometimes, the orientation of 
the other is "intentionally" misunderstood in order make a path for 
phenomenological saying as a correction of course.  Doesn't Heidegger 
employ this intentional misunderstanding ( perhaps "mis-reading" is a 
better term) to almost any philosopher he serves up?  And so you 
sometimes "serve up" Michael.  I enjoy when such inter-thugging pops 
up and threatens to self-destruct the conversation, but then always 
seems to take care of itself.

Perhaps I said too much.

Sorry.

Regards,

Allen.


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