To Colin Clayton; I do not claim to "be" anybody. I simply
make comments now again in response to posts. This is ostensibly
the point of the thing... The rather universally negative tone
of replies to my posts doesn't disturb me because all this
is vaporous stuff, of no consequence, aetherial murmurings.
But I read what people write. When what is written strikes me
as thoughtful and or insightful, I say so. When not, I say so.
In our male dominated society (gasp! oh no! say it isn't so!),
such directness means that I am appropriating a style of discourse
not allowed women, who are meant to 'make nice.'
Thus good old Michael Harrawood,
who seems none to fond of the ladies in the first place, prefaced
one of his earlier nasty cracks of the "how dare she variety"
with a term of endearment usually reserved for friends, into
which category he and I assuredly do not fall, if I can judge
>from the tenor of his spleen.
In general, I have always found it to be a better course to begin
by seeking to understand what could count as 'good' reasons why
Heidegger settled on the instances he *did* choose as disclosive
than to propose, as has been done more than once before on this list
by the by, say, love (and Tom, if you are watching, all references
to your name, any misspellings, and what not, were unintentional:
I could hardly make fun of a name, although you hardly hesitated
to assume in this typo rich environment that such keyings were
deliberate. Yet, I've noting against the name Tom. I used
the term tommy-twaddle to characacterize your ideas, not you
yourself. I nothing against you personally or your
name, I liked some of the directions you seem to be moving in, just
thought you could find much more inspiration in other fields
than Heidegger's own) or "making Mommy proud" (credit: T. Blancato).
But this is just my idea of rigor. It is, more than manifestly,
a minority viewpoint. And, Dr. Clayton, since you mention books
you've published on Heidegger, be aware that as yet I've done no
such thing. I am a Nietzsche scholar, and I daresay even British
libraries carry my book. Be my guest: look it up.
I'll do the same, but your post hardly encourages me.
See how mutual all this is?? Gives a new meaning to Heraclitus.
Dr. B.E. Babich
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