From: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 09:59:49 EDT Subject: Re: Gestell UND Gewinnst Michael, Having had a leisurely, woodpathy reading and thinking about parts of "Marx and Heidegger," the questions concerning Gestell and Gewinnst begin first with a clumsy attempt at uncovering Heidegger's critique of the will to will (his view of Nietz as the last metaphysician) with particular connection to the transvaluation of all values. For now it is just humming in the background as a not-ready preparation for discussing "Marx and Heidegger." So my monkey mind played its little flute on the woodpath with "Marx and Heidegger," whispering tunes of value-thinking as nihilism, the essence of the market as psychology, the essence of money as metaphysics, and so on. Lame thoughts, perhaps, marginal scribblings. Since you center Marx thought as a thinking on value, I speculate that value-thinking in Marx falls under the sway of nihilism as does such in Nietzsche. It may be the case that a heideggerian thinking on the essence of modern capital --a distinction one makes about technology as gestell and "nothing technical"-- could interpret capital as the value system of Gestell: the gestell as the reduction of the pure objectification of beings; the essence of modern capital the total subjectivity of all beings. Also, it may be the case that the fourfold, the earth in particular, says something other than what is confronted at the end of "Marx and Heidegger," says something essential to Gelassenheit. (I learned in the forest that "Gelassenheit" is the German 12-step program term for "Serenity," as in the "serenity prayer" that grants courage to change what can be changed and serenity to accept what cannot... or something to that effect.) It may be that Heidegger does call for an essence of humanity in the soil of the planet, truly turning Plato on his feet, but I don't think so, and so I don't think the challenging-forth of technology and capital have to do with the loss of bucolic life. What is happening to humanity by way of technology is a continuation of what has been happening throughout history, a kind of evolution, mutation. But the mutation brought forward by the essence of technology is a "fixing into place" of Dasein, which makes it an ersatz-Opening, a closing. Capital may be the handmaiden of total subjectivity to this great objectifying fixedness. kindest regards, hen --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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