From: "Paul Murphy" <Villanova-AT-btopenworld.com> Subject: Re: colonisation Date: Wed, 19 Feb 2003 13:33:59 +0100 can you recommend some books by Burckhardt? I stood outside his former residence, it's just at the top of the lane as you go out of Basel Jugendherberge, beside the fountain. I have some pics, if you like I'll send them to you? PM ----- Original Message ----- From: "Rene de Bakker" <rene.de.bakker-AT-uba.uva.nl> To: <heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu> Sent: Monday, January 27, 2003 2:25 PM Subject: Re: colonisation > Karl-Wilhelm Welwei, expert on the polis, in his last > little book: Greece, 2000-500 BC, maintains > that the traditional understanding of Greek colonisation > (from 800) as economy-driven enterprises, cannot > explain the phenomenon. > > It is rather a riddle, like the 'colonisation' of > Greece itself, after the decline of the Mycenean age. > Instead of the traditional waves of invading peoples (or races) > from the North, now it is generally accepted*, that relatively small > groups spread over the country, which organised themselves > in a way that was to lead to the later polis. Clearly the binding > centre of these early groups was the cult of a specific god > at a specific place. The use of the term 'religion' is totally > meaningless here, because we don't know nothing. > Heidegger: The Greeks didn't have religion, they were and are the > looked-at by the gods. (Die Angeblickten) > > > Burckhardt wasn't already interested in the who > exactly where and how and when of the Greek puzzle. > Whoever the Greeks were before, they didn't want it > no more, they all wanted to be Greeks. > (This goes still, and extremely, for Alexander. > It is ignificant that precisely in Bactria the tension between > Greek democracy and Asian despoty exploded) > > Instead of overloading them with OUR imperialism, > religion, atheism, globalism, we'd better ask with Hoelderlin > where OUR Delos and Olympia might be. > > > > > *on the undeniable basis of the spreading of different > dialects > > > > ----------------------------------- > drs. Rene de Bakker > Universiteitsbibliotheek Amsterdam > Afdeling Catalogisering > tel. 020-5252368 > > > --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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