File spoon-archives/lyotard.archive/lyotard_1996/96-12-19.214, message 67


Date: Fri, 05 Jan 1996 12:26:08 -0800 (PST)
From: JAMILES-AT-CSUPomona.Edu
Subject: Re: sublime


I have a question about the sense in which others on the 
list ascribe to the phrase"talking about what you can't talk
about".  By "can't talk about" does one mean literally that
one cannot utter the words because there aren't sufficient
words, or does one mean "not willing to talk about".  My
question arises from the claim that Heidegger "failed
to address (his) nazism and its atrocities.  It seems to
me that in one sense he surely could have talked about it.
He chose not to.  I think there is an important difference,
both morally and philosophically.
Judy Miles
Cal Poly Pomona


   

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