Date: Sat, 13 Dec 2003 14:45:16 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: roots of  anti-semitism


Hi frank, thanks for your note.

As near as I can tell, I was pointing to a perceived similarity 
between the return of German
idealism to the truth generating earth-ground of ancient Greece, relocating it
  on/in German soil and in the German language, and the return of 
modern Judaism to the language and land of their fathers (In 
Benselers Griechisch-Deutsches Schuelwoerterbuch, autochthonos is tied
to the Vaterland [Bambach, 52]),  both to
find what Wallace Stevens  noticed as

the exact rock where his inexactnesses
would discover, at last, the view toward which they had edged,
where he could lie, and gazing down at the sea,
recognize his unique and solitary home.. .,

and how the universal truth of the Greek/German/Jewish sort must be 
paradoxically rooted
in a particular piece of earth to which the particular people whose 
texts hold that
truth in safe-keeping are forever uniquely and distinctively 
tethered, thereby excluding
other peoples, often particular other peoples, from that truth giving 
Bodenstaendigkeit.

That's probably not much better, but unfortunately I tend almost irreversably
toward wordiness.

Regards,

Allen





>Thanks, Allen. I refrain from responding because I'm unsure of your point
>about autochthony. Would you supply it if I've missed it?
>Thanks,
>
>Frank
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