Date: Mon, 18 Feb 2002 22:22:47 +0100
From: artefact-AT-t-online.de (Michael Eldred)
Subject: Re: Martin Heidegger the intellectual mentor of the left


Cologne 18-Feb-2002

amscult schrieb Sun, 17 Feb 2002 20:49:34 -0600:

> > Cologne 16-Feb-2002
> >
>
> >
> > The phenomenon of the feminine, i.e. 'womanliness', has to
> > become a question.
> > The traditional notions of 'feminine intuition', etc. must
> > not be taken as
> > 'facts of essence', but have to be thought questionably
> > from being if they are
> > to have any credence at all.
> >
>
> What about Nietzsche's Preface to Beyond Good and Evil?
>
> "Suppose Truth is a woman, what then?"
>
> Talk about thinking the feminine questionably!  A
> questioning
> that questions back the questioner, and leaves him with no
> basis
> for an answer.  Only the possibility of thinking the Other.
> But
> of course the Other can't be thought without making her the
> same.  Reminds me of Heidegger,
>
> The most thought provoking thought is we have yet to think!
>
> Al
>

Al,

Supposing that womanliness is a way in which truth holds sway, then the
sway of truth itself becomes a question along with the apparently
self-evident difference man/woman on which feminism is so stridently
based.

Nietzsche says in the Preface to JGB that "every kind of dogmatism [in
philosophy] is standing there today in a sad stance lacking courage. If
it is still standing at all!"

The lack of courage is the failure to take a stand in defined truth when
truth itself, i.e. its holding sway, becomes a question. Truth's holding
sway both holds up human being in a stance, i.e. allows it to stand _as_
human being, and brings it to sway indefinitely, indefinably in
resonances which one cannot quite put one's finger on.

Only when we are barely still standing can be begin to learn to rethink
what metaphysics has left us standing with.

Michael
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