File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0302, message 185


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
>
>
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