Date: Thu, 01 Aug 2002 18:32:53 +0100
Subject: Re: "metaphysical and not phenomenology"?


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Michael Eldred quoting Heidegger recently on phenomenology:

> "What is it which phenomenology should 'make see'? What is it which must be
> called phenomenology in an outstanding sense? What is according to its essence
> _necessarily_ the topic of an _explicit_ showing? Obviously something which at
> first and for the most part does _not_ show itself, which is _hidden_
vis-a-vis
> what shows itself at first and for the most part, but at the same time is
> something which belongs essentially to what shows itself at first and for the
> most part, and that in such a way that it constitutes its sense and ground
> (scholium H.: truth of being). But what remains _hidden_ in an exceptional
sense
> or falls back into _concealment_ or only shows itself in a _distorted_ way is
> not this or that being, but ... the _being_ of beings." (SuZ:35)

What withholds showing itself in the showing of beings as themselves is just
being... phenomenology as the pointing and laying out of what shows itself
in the showing is thus the very way of ways, the way being can (not) show
itself. This unappearance is perhaps behind Derrida's suggestion concerning
being and metaphoricity:

"At one and the same time language illuminates and hides Being itself.
Nevertheless, Being itself is alone in its absolute resistance to every
metaphor. Every philology [and linguistics] which allegedly reduces the
meaning of Being to the metaphorical origin of the word "Being", whatever
the historical (scientific) value of its hypotheses, misses the history of
the meaning of Being." [Derrida, 1978, 'Violence and Metaphysics' in Derrida
'Writing and Difference', pp138-9][Derrida's italics in red]

Being can never appear since it [is] the appearing of what appears in its
appearance. Likewise it resists being metaphorised, being carried across...
since it [is] the carrying/bearing across that language does...

Or am I out of my tree?

michaelP 

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