File spoon-archives/heidegger.archive/heidegger_2003/heidegger.0312, message 5


Date: Mon, 01 Dec 2003 10:04:37 -0500
Subject: Re: Liberal vs. social democracy - Gestell/Gewinnst
From: Henry Sholar <henry-AT-agenceglobal.com>




> From: Jan Straathof <janstr-AT-chan.nl>
> Reply-To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2003 02:10:27 +0100
> To: heidegger-AT-lists.village.Virginia.EDU
> Subject: Re: Liberal vs. social democracy - Gestell/Gewinnst
> 
> Henry said well:
> 
>> Money is the god of gestell
> 
> Indeed Henry, there is certainly an ontological link between the godly
> and the monetary. Michael aptly grasped one religious aspect of money,
> when he observed that the introduction of the Euro has much to do with
> the formation of an European identity: the use of (the same) money is a
> gathering and binding (religo, religare) factor.
> 
> Some archeologists maintain that money originated in religious and theistic
> contexts. The first coins where found in temples: not in palaces, garrisons
> or homes. The use of these coins and other monetary artefacts, they argue,
> seemed to have a ritual meaning (exchange with gods) and no economical
> nor commercial one. I agree, we need a philosophy of money, but before
> that we first, i guess, have to think through a theology of money.
> 
> Indeed, so many questions: buddha + money, christ & money, nietzsche
> and money .....  and heidegger ? ..... heidegger is a coin .....
> 
Jan,
At the beginning of "The Age of the World Picture,"(1938) Heidegger speaks
of five essential phenomena of the modern period:

1) science
2) machine technology
3) "art's moving into the purview of aesthetics"
4) "human activity is conceived and consummated as culture. ...to become the
politics of culture." (Here is the ominous gigantic, perhaps?)

and 5) "the loss of the gods."

The traces of the gods' absence, I think, can be noticed to some extent in
this rootedness to money in the gathering and binding.

Someone once told me that all the dictations of the Spanish Inquisition can
be reduced to: "Bring the money here." Be that as it may, the nascent
planetary Market, with its ever growing power to determine the gathering,
binding and exchanging of everything, is certainly a start towards a
theology of money.

thanks,
henry



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