Date: Tue, 26 Feb 2002 11:16:23 -0800
From: Kenneth Johnson <kenn-AT-beef.sparks.nv.us>
Subject: N as the end of metaphysics - Heston



Early in tape 1 of Heston's narration of Nietzsche an actor appears as
Bertrand Russell and comments scathingly that N was merely a literary
rather than an academic philosopher. This, after a brief counterpointing to
it by Heston saying:

"Martin Heidegger, Russell's leading German contemporary, saw Nietzsche as
the 'culmination' of the entire history of Western metaphysics"

is followed by another actor, playing Heidegger, who, in English but with
heavy German accent, narrates this comment:

"Nietzsche's philosophy is the end of metaphysics, inasmuch as it reverts
to the very commencement of greek thought, taking up such thought in a way
that is peculiar to Nietzsche's philosophy alone. Because Nietzsche's
fundamental metaphysical position is the end of metaphysics, it performs
the grandest and most profound gathering and accomplishment of all the
fundamental positions in philosophy since Plato."

In the course of my centuric years here on list i've never grasped the real
intent by all of you as to what the implication of this 'ending' of
metaphysics portends for philosophy, or even exactly what the dire
necessity for this ending means. My 'impression' from most of your comments
on it has been that this event sharply and simply and completely cancels
Nietzsche out and installs Heidegger as the new spearpoint of western
thinking. The only clue I've had that this impression isn't correct was
Rene once agreeing with me that Nietzsche's proper time is still yet to
come.

Have I misread you on this? or is it true that N is now longer "--Oh very
much alive" but has merely, under edict by another of Heidegger funeral
orations, rather been interred in history?

I often try to think 'beyond physics', to es-say/es-see beyond the physical
but without at the same time falling transcendentally off of this
prescipitous seeing into any psuedo knowledge about it but rather only
acknowledging there might possibly, even might quite probably, be an
'other' (side, or something) to physics and that some attention must be
posted at the edge of this diaphanous membrane by someone enguarded against
producing any illusions about its undeniably possible 'other[s]'.

this 'positioning' by me, this 'attention' (or 'care) I take at this sharp
edge, is undertaken by aegis given by attainment to my rank as sovereign
individual, one enformed thus informed by all the physical manifestations
streaming out of, as a corporeal rivulet of, Will to Power, incarnated as a
delimited force that understands itself 'as' force and not as something
merely and humuesqually 'human'. There is also a poetic element at work in
it too, a dimensionalizing one that also examines itself at this borderline
of "force and its other", an other that is also not 'nothing', nor even
'nothingness' -

- and it is not just avoidence from, or the curling up and dying of, 'the
truth', but is rather - - X.

Inside the outside of the inside out is where i'm most at home.

Kenneth Orion

The Ear versus the Eye in thinking - or. literally AND figurally: "seeing
the saying say the seeing"




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