From: amscult-AT-drake.edu
Date: Wed, 25 Jun 2003 13:11:43 -0500
Subject: "TOTAL PASSOVER"


Most recently, a group singing out of Brooklyn; and, much earlier of course, 
the strange, rather confusing translation for the holiday of Pesach, indicating  
simultaneously the sacrifice of the paschal lamb and the "passing over" of  the 
appropriately marked Israelite houses by the Angel of Death on his/her way to 
slaughter the Egyptian first born. But its relvance  here is Heideggerian.

Heidegger lands on the expression, ("Uebergehen" in the German)and comes to 
rather depend on it in trying to describe the comings and goings of the call in 
Sections 56 and 57 of Division Two.  Speaking of the coming of the call  as 
Dasein remains absorbed in the everyday business of the they-self: 

Das Dasein, als welches es wetlich verstanden  fuer die Anderen und sich selbst 
ist, wird in diesem Anruf Uebergangen . . . Dass der Ruf das Man und die 
oeffentliche Ausggelegtheit des Daseins Uebergeht,  bedeutet keineswegs, dass 
er es nicht mittrifft.  Gerade im uebergehen stoesst er auf oeffentliches 
Ansehen erpichte Man in die Bedeutungslosigkeit.

Stanbaugh's translation:  Understood in a worldly way for others and for 
itself, Dasein is PASSED OVER in this call. . . The fact that the call PASSES 
OVER both the they and the public interpretedness of Dasein by no means 
signifies that it has also not been reached.  Precisely in PASSING OVER the 
they, the call pushed it into insignificance (leaving the self open to being 
summoned by the call).

The analogy of movement here is uncanny to say the least. In the case of both 
the Angel of Death and the Call, a certain and clear sense of purpose is 
reflected in the passing over.  In this passing over, Israel in the one case 
and Dasein in the other, are both favored by the determinate indeterminateness 
of Being--indeterminate, because of the space left open to the one being called 
to hear /understand  (Shema means both in the Hebrew,  perhaps 
"equiprimordially," perhaps not),  heed the call.  Of course the passing over 
by the call is kinder to the others than the Angel of Death was to the 
Egyptians. They are merely "pushed into insignificance.'  Not  physical death, 
but rather hermeneutical  irrelevancy to the interpretive orientation of 
Dasein.

In philosophy, election is harmless to those not chosen, even to those who 
stand in the way of the chosen.  The only ones who might harm themselves in the 
process of trying to get it straight are of course. . .

Best regards,

Allen(trying to survive the black flies on Madeliene Island, and thus not able 
to pay close attention to spelling and puctuation errors)


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