Date: Sun, 3 Feb 2002 23:43:23 +0100
From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
Subject: Re: Plato's nihilism


Thanks Rene for this nice exposee, you wrote i.a.:

>Also Nietzsche thinks along these lines, when he overcomes metaphysical ideals
>by unmasking them as the needs of a self-conceiting power. The word "Sein"
>doesn't refer to a reality, but is the highest value of an essentially
>(de)valuating will, which is printed upon what only really is: becoming.
>It is not so, that Heidegger says, that Nietzsche doesn't think radically
>enough. It is so radical, that no perspectives are left anymore for a 'new'
>metaphysics. But it is the radical, last consequence of what Plato started:
>the letting out of Being, as that which is already taken for granted BEFORE
>the question for the ens qua ens can be posed.

ok, but let's try to radicalize this question to the political:

- would a post metaphysical politics imply the abandonment
of (the rethorics of) the categories/perspectives of the "Left"
and the "Right", and -if so- what new categories/perspectives
could be offered to our political ageny ?

- would a post metaphysical politics still value some or other
form of an "utopian moment/movement" ?

- and isn't the current (re)fusion of politics and religion not
really a sign of how easely a post metaphysical politics can
collapse into pre metaphysical illusions ?

yours,
Jan




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