From: "Stuart Elden" <stuart.elden-AT-clara.co.uk>
Subject: RE: Martin Heidegger the intellectual mentor of the left
Date: Tue, 12 Feb 2002 16:46:55 -0000


Michael

>Just because old Louis murdered his wife and went a bit loopy does not ?
>de-negate his visionary and sparkling work...

No, no, i wasn't and I'd not suggest that!

On the more substantive point, it seems to me that early/late Marx is as
problematic as pre-turn/after-turn Heidegger. I can't comment on
Wittgenstein.

I'd go along with much of what you say about time and the challenge to
chronology - one of the reasons why linear readings of thinkers seem
problematic to me.

Lots more in your mail. I may be being unfair on Althusser, and there are
certainly similarities between some of his ideas and Heidegger. But he
doesn't strike me as as interesting as Lefebvre in the bringing together of
Heidegger and Marx, nor as good on reading Marx's career as a whole.

I'd appreciate the reference to Jameson's use of 'left-Heideggerians'.

Thanks

Stuart



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