Re: Heidegger's use of the word "polis"


I've never seen such elitist junk as this derailing of Derrida/Heidegger
and who knows what else. To see or not to see? Please, it's blinding.

All I get from it is that Clark feels being is Polish. Perhaps he's read
Mostowski?

Alan

On Sat, 4 Nov 1995, Curtis Clark wrote:

> At 04:13 AM 11/4/95 -0500, you wrote:
> >>for n/ev er r/is[..]sunder stan ding *being* as pol*is* h...
> >>
> >>th es i(gh)t e of ort (w)ort...(m)ort... be(i)ng is/(k)no/t(s)he cl ear
> >>(i)ng:
> >>a n ear (i)n gd (r)is[..]s tance
> >>a/s o v er(r)eign *is*
> >>as ad v ent ure
> >>ad(e s)ign at (i)ng
> >>an a re a : as p(l)ace for t(s)he da nce...
> >
> >Mr. Clark,
> >I haven't got the hermeneutic stamina to decipher this kind of 'writing.'
> >Do you take pleasure in giving people a hard time understanding your
> >thoughts? If your motivation is vastly more complex, I'd indulge you to
> >explain something of it to me, and perhaps give me a 'translation' (with
> >all of the Heideggerian difficulty it may entail) of this last statement,
> >as I find quite interesting the relation of the polis and being, but am
> >incapable of reading your message. Is such writing meant to be
> >decipherable? Parts of it, like the '(w)ort...' make especially little
> >sense to me, nor the addition of the occasional inexplicable
> >parenthetically-bracketed vowel or consonant.
> >
> >Thanks,
> >
> >Colin F. Wilder
> >niloc@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
> >
> >
> >
> >
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> >
>
> grammatical connection b(l)ind s
> a metaphysical legacy each word b ear s in
> its collusion with the supreme conjuring trick of SIGNification...
>
> to/two/too see or (k)not to/two/too see the for es t...
> for t re es that both obscure and reve(a)l...
> for es t at (i)on as de(a)for es t at (i)on...
>
> ac l ear(i)ng that n ear s it (e)s
> dis/ris[..]stance... a re s[is]dance
> be t wean an un fol ding an d/a to/two/too gath er(r)s(i)ng
> hymn...
> "...But where the danger is,grows
> The saving-power also."
>
>
>
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