From: Edlerfrank1-AT-aol.com Date: Sun, 14 Dec 2003 19:20:18 EST Subject: Re: roots of anti-semitism Thanks, Allen, for clarifying. I like the tension you bring up between the universalism(s) that emerged from the Greek/Judaic/German worlds and the fact that these universalism(s) were rooted in regional autochthonic nativities, so to speak. Thanks, Michael, for bringing up that German gravitas which makes every step of that peasant woman in Heidegger's description of the peasant shoes more difficult as she pulls her boot out of the sucking mud. We just finished a conference here at the University of Nebraska (Lincoln) on Regionalism and the Humanities and the questions of region/cosmos, universal/particular and so on , were much on my mind. It seems to me that one of the things Heidegger is trying to do in the Schritt zuruck, that is, the Abbau or step back back to the Greeks (we can include here the nativities of any culture -- that is, we don't have to marginalize any as Heidegger is prone to do in relation to the Judaic culture) is to move to the root experiences of logic in an attempt to go beyond the sense of universality that is indifferent to locality. It is this sense of indifference of the universal to the local that fuels Heidegger's animosity at times to logic.There is a hint of this too in Thoreau's attempt to go beyond indifferent universals in the way he uses language at times in Walden and other works. I guess my question is: must we resign ourselves to conceptualities or forms of understanding where the universals necessarily become indifferent to the local and where localities necessarily see the universal as foreign, threatening, and intrusive? At the conference, I gave a short paper (I really didn't have enough time to develop it well) that tried to address the disparity between linear time and circular time in relation to question of how place is constituted. If you're interested, the paper is at <A HREF="http://commhum.mccneb.edu/philos/temporality_and_place.htm">http://commhum.mccneb.edu/philos/temporality_and_place.htm</A> Thanks. Frank --- StripMime Warning -- MIME attachments removed --- This message may have contained attachments which were removed. Sorry, we do not allow attachments on this list. --- StripMime Report -- processed MIME parts --- multipart/alternative text/plain (text body -- kept) text/html --- --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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