From: Edlerfrank1-AT-aol.com
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 22:01:54 EST
Subject: Re: Edler - time, jetzt, Aristotle


Thanks, Marilyn, for calling me on Aristotle. You are right -- 
philosophically speaking, I rode roughshod on Aristotle. I thought about bringing in 
circular time and developing the finer points with greater rigor but decided not to 
because of time constraints (pun unintentional) at the conference. Three papers 
at one session with about 20 minutes each. Ugh! Please read the paper with my 
apologies to Aristotle. You will have noticed, I'm sure, that the footnotes 
are not yet fully developed, so I can amend that in the notes.

The difficulty is that even in the amended notion of linear time for 
Aristotle (and for Heidegger's ecstatic temporality), it is not possible for a past 
event to become fully presently present again. The full sense of circular time, 
however, in the religious or mythic sense depends on that bring able to 
happen. 

Actually, I fudged a bit on ecstatic temporality as well -- I'm really 
working off of Heidegger's lectures on Hoelderlin, the Andenken essay and the 
lecture -- also some of the Zollikoner Seminare.

The only place I know of where Heidegger engages mythic time in any sustained 
way is his review of Ernst Cassirer's volume 2 of Symbolic Forms (Mythic 
Thought), especially where he touches on the notion of mana. (The review is found 
in the 5th ed. of Kant und das Problem der Metaphysik, pp.255-270.)

What I'm trying to say is that I don't think ecstatic temporality can 
incorporate circular or mythic time in the full sense of the word. Thus, I was 
positioning ecstatic temporality between linear and circular time.

Again, thanks for your response!

Frank


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