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 --- from list phillitcrit-AT-lists.village.virginia.edu ---
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