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> -----Oorspronkelijk bericht----- 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 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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