Date: Thu, 18 Dec 2003 08:35:27 -0600
From: allen scult <allen.scult-AT-drake.edu>
Subject: Re: Bambach Bombs


>In a message dated 17/12/2003 14:45:58 GMT Standard Time,
>allen.scult-AT-drake.edu writes:
>
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>>  Subj:Bambach Bombs
>>  Date:17/12/2003 14:45:58 GMT Standard Time
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>>  >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 autochthony 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
>>
>>  Allen writes:
>
>Jud [with one 'd' please - we might as well get it right after all these
>years]

Of course I knew you spelled it with two d's.  Jud is merely an affectionate
diminutive.  I also considered "Juddy," but I thought that took too 
many liberties.


>
>Strange how people accuse others who do not agree with them of 'unthinking'
>isn't it?

Simple disagreement is appropriate only in certain cases.  In others, 
judgement is called
for, sometimes harsh judgment.  You got off easy because of your 
occasional kindness
and vulnerability.


>What is really meant or believed  I suppose is that the other's
>'unthoughtfulness' somehow magically or totemistically confirms 
>their own particular form
>of  'proper thoughtfulness' as being 'true',

That is a way of parsing what is called in come circles:  criticism. 
 From a critical perspective, some of form of magic. or totemism is 
often the engine of unthoughtfulness-- what gives it the illusion of
directed motion.  I think analytical philosophy and British 
empiricism before it is riddled
with such superstitions,  Hume, on the other hand is a different 
story.  How do I know that?
Because his writing evokes love.




>  as if to say that Heidegger's
>fanatical nationalism and peasant-style rootedness could be measured against
>some God-given Allenic version of what went on in the mind of the 
>philosopher of
>National Socialism by the conduit of some privileged pipeline into the dead
>man's nutty neuronal networks?  The man was no more than an educated peasant -
>educated that is in the language of the big city - but still seeding his
>notions by dipping his  hand slow-mindedly  into his Samensack des 
>Landarbeiters for
>his ideas and attitudes. Oh, but I'm forgetting aren't I - you arrive at your
>conclusions hermeneutically?

I wish you knew what that meant.  It would, perhaps for the first 
time (at least on this
list) make decent use of your obviously considerable intelligence and 
imagination.

>Well my advice is to get yourself another better
>yad

One never has one's own yad, of course, but only uses whichever one 
hangs from the
particular Torah scroll one is honored to read.  Reading Heidegger 
with a yad. . .It's a
fantasy beyond my erotic capabilities to even contemplate.


Happy Christmas Juddy!?

And to all the rest, may your appropriations reflect the light of your dreams.

Allen



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