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Date: Wed, 13 May 1998 11:57:27 -0400
From: Reg Lilly <rlilly-AT-scott.skidmore.edu>
Subject: Re: PLC: Truth and its friends


Howard Hastings wrote:

> 
> I don't see how the Alethic truth could be more private than the others.
> Doesn't revealment occur within discourse, within a specific mode
> of Dasein?
> 

	Well, certainly for Heidegger revealment occurs entirely within discourse,
logos.  One could spend a great deal of (more) time talking about what
"discourse" encompasses.  There are those, Blanchot and (one might say) Levinas,
for whom discourse is not coextensive with 'revealment.'  For Blanchot, there is
an abysmal divide between seeing and saying.  For this reason, Blanchot
emphasizes solitude.  Levinas's notion of the face, as that which outstrips
discourse, is another 'cite' where one might look for examples of revealment,
truth, beyond discourse.  Reiner Schuermann thinks along these lines in his
Broken Hegemonies.  The issue is, more or less, of a singularization that indeed
comes to light, is true, that is more radical than can be put into words.  Even
Heidegger fudges in this direction with his 'call of silence' that occurs in the
authentic moment of vision (Augenblick).  He moves away from this, though, later
on.

Ciao,
Reg


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