File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0304, message 476


Subject: RE: Gestell UND Gewinnst
Date: Tue, 29 Apr 2003 16:52:03 +0200
From: "Bakker, R.B.M. de" <R.B.M.deBakker-AT-uva.nl>




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Van: HealantHenry-AT-aol.com [mailto:HealantHenry-AT-aol.com]
Verzonden: dinsdag 29 april 2003 16:00
Aan: heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu
Onderwerp: Re: Gestell UND Gewinnst


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,


Henry,
I do. And it goes for Nietzsche too: remain faithful to the earth.
And so keep man vertically. Scientifically there is no difference
between up and down, but for a being-in-the-world the sky is up
and the earth down. Scientifically there is no difference between
gods and humans, both object, but etc. 
In 'Gelassenheit' the shortage of modern man is seen in his lack
of Bodenstaendigkeit/rootedness to the soil. (but no blood for soil)
The lack of rootedness (Nietzsche: the lack of a 'heavy weight')
is the same as the missing of a Heimat. But Heimat is nothing
idyllic, nor something real, ontic. It can't be, when philosophy
is the longing to be at home everywhere. Hoelderlin even calls it
the most forbidden fruit. And Trakl's more inner childhood is not
far away either. The step, at last, over the threshold, "petrified
by pain", in "Winter evening", but just then and there (Da) the
brightness


 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 .. were you there to check? Otherwise, what can be the *same*
  in the continuation? Is the idea of continuation not an instance
  of quantified time? Don't you presuppose thus a substratum, all
  along Kantian lines, securing an identity a priori? 

rene



 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


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