Date: Sat, 08 Nov 2003 17:43:36 +0000
Subject: Re: Nietzsche/Nazism - biologism two-ish
From: michaelP <michael-AT-sandwich-de-sign.co.uk>


on 8/11/03 4:38 pm, Malcolm Riddoch at m.riddoch-AT-ecu.edu.au wrote speaking
of Heidegger the man:

> although I agree that an
> understanding of his biography is an important aid in understanding his
> writings, in one way or another.

Malcom, I wonder whether this is true or even useful unless one has a way of
understanding texts in terms of biography (and the political/economic/social
conditions and grounds of biographical facticity). Without a (theoretically
sound) hermeneutical methodology, a manner of reading lives as lives, the
result of attempting an understanding of texts in terms of biography turn
quickly to pulp and stock pop notions: hardly philosophy. And this is even
assuming that such a rational series of links can be found at all; might be
more reasonable the reverse way round, whereupon what one makes of a life
and its supposed events is revealed within the texts. In any case the texts
can be read (properly) and understood without the slightest reference to
biographical detail; the texts exist, and like the presocratic fragments,
can be read and interpreted ad nauseam in all their richness without the
need for bios of their supposed authors.

regards

michaelP




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