Date: Mon, 13 Jan 2003 16:27:28 +0100
From: Rene de Bakker <rene.de.bakker-AT-uba.uva.nl>
Subject: Re: Widerwille


Thanks all. Also for disclosing my personality disorder.
Can't find anything to contradict.

My real object is the Widerwille/aversion, which is in everyone
qua man, in some more than in others, and the most in those
denying it. Sometimes it looks hopeless.

Besides, I take Heidegger that seriously, that also his political
choice, even when it was a stupidity, as he said himself, is
included. But: what if there has been, after WW1 --the big red line out
of the blue under the bourgeois nationalism of Europe-- a chance (or
maybe even a most uncertain chance to have a chance) of taking
another direction, than the one and only, that is left now and that is
getting more urgent, compelling, strangling.  (That's why H kept to the
inner greatness of the movement, that is he remained loyal to himself)
To such a degree that the young -they're called "kids" nowadays- don't
seem to be able of idealism any more, they're disillusioned a priori, and
I can't blame them. That's why i like Eminem, he is an outburst of
elementary fury and creativity amidst almost complete boredom, so that
it would indeed already be 'so empty without me'.

What if something like that would enter the political arena, with such force,
that the solid structures of the political building would be shocked?
Sounds fantastic, but who can tell, that that can't happen, now that
anything seems possible, and I don't mean merely the North-Koreans
outsmarting America. 
Nietzsche stressed the vital importance of these structures for life, and
considered the fast spreading distaste for authority a main consequence
of decadence, that is lack of will. Who doesn't have the power to organize
themselves, will be organized. Denying the 'disgregation of the atoms',
which Nietzsche diagnosed everywhere, and of which Wagner was the
best, most instructive example, could prove suicidal. But then, the will is
will to power, not will to life. Says Nietzsche.

Heidegger says, we will, among other things, have to go back to
re-consider in another way than is done so far, the disasters
of the 20th century, which Nietzsche foresaw (not: predicted),
and we, or some, will have to go back further, in order to
understand a more fundamental destruction, that has to do
with metaphysics and nihilism, and extremely hard to tackle,
precisely because of the Widerwille. I've become convinced that we
must start with Nietzsche, not with Heidegger, and I believe
Heidegger indicates that himself in GA45, the vol. everyone
seriously studying H should work towards. (should? Me? I 'should'
nothing) Together with the Nietzsche volumes, and esp.
the problematic of the denial of the staying away of Being, or,
if that sounds mystical  - and it does without an entrance made! -
let's just say that something essential seems missing. Heidegger:
We won't find out until we're with the backs against the wall, not
before. The wall being the limit of Dasein.

We're in something much weirder than we like to believe.

Rene







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drs. Rene de Bakker
Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam
Afdeling Catalogisering 
tel. 020-5252368              


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