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Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:45:20 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Bambach Bombs


>Cologne 14-Dec-2003
>
>
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>Charles Bambach has been following the trace of autochthony for some time.

When I first read this, Michael, I thought I detected a hint of 
disapprobation--that in
following this "trace,"  Bambach had created an unsightly rut.  Well, 
after slogging my
way through most of the rest of the book ( I was initially engaged by 
the story as he
developed it), I find he indeed overdid it.  Heidegger's texts are 
rich enough, and the (sometimes stupid) risks he takes, great enough, 
that it's relatively easy to uncover, and then obsessively mine, the 
"true
roots" of his thought.  So what might have been the beginning of an 
interesting approach to thinking
the Sache of the text becomes a tiresome exposee.  Wherever he looks, 
Bambach seems to find
yet another example of autochtony at work.

Our own Judd displays a similar disposition to "attack" Heidegger 
with the same hammer,
over and over again, only, in his case, of course it is empty form, 
an un-thought
repetition compulsion.  In Bambach's case, I do recommend the first 
couple of chapters
which show how the trajectory of Heidegger's thought comes out of the 
experience of
intellectual and political life in Weimar.

Allen






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