File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0309, message 248


Date: Fri, 19 Sep 2003 17:20:32 +0100
Subject: Re: Einstein
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


on 19/9/03 5:03 pm, Malcolm Riddoch at m.riddoch-AT-ecu.edu.au wrote:

> So much for the historical marketplace, anyone up for a reading of the
> Origin of the Work of Art?

Count me in, Malc. Fed up with all this non-Heideggerian stuff.

> his [Einstein's] theoretical input to the Manhattan project was minimal but he
> foresaw the threat that Heisenberg's team posed if Hitler ever got his
> hands on an atom bomb...

Interesting about Heisenberg: have you seen the Michael Frayn play either in
theatre or on TV about the famous meet tween Heisenberg and Bohr during the
war; it seems from that that Heisenberg attempted to get the allies and
evryone else to slow down the inevitable production of the bomb; it seems
that Heisenberg succeeeded in this, but the amerikans did not...

mP



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