Date: Wed, 17 Dec 2003 08:45:20 -0600 From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu> Subject: Bambach Bombs >Cologne 14-Dec-2003 > > > >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 --- from list heidegger-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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