From: malcolm riddoch[SMTP:riddoch@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]
Sent: 27 April 1996 09:29
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<<'Failure' as the beginning of the end, the culmination, of his early
immature thinking? An end which leads on through to the rectorate address
and his engagement with a critique of Nietzsche and Nazism. The failure of
B&T might be read as the necessity of the 'turning' which perhaps finds its
earliest expression in 'On the essence of truth'. In what senses does
Heidegger's relation to the 'truth of existence' undergo a change from his
earlier Kantian work through to his writings on will? Can it be put merely
in terms of a more explicitly poetic relation to truth?>>
One of the interesting points is that around the time H. begins to
re-orientate himself in relation to the B & T project (say 1928/9) - he
actually beings to use again vocabulary which he had first used in 1918/9
and then not used since. In this sense - it is actually a re-turn: which,
of course, begs the question of whether his early philosophy can be named
'immature thinking'.
In addition I'm not sure that the influence of Kant is a key one in these
early years - or even in drafting much of B & T.
Nevertheless the question of truth is obviously a key one but your flow is
too compressed for me to follow. Please explain more !
Cheers,
Jacob Knee
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