>On Sun, 5 May 1996, Robert V. Scheetz wrote:
>
>> Just read "Origin of the Work of Art". I can't get over H's predeliciton
>> for etymologies expressive of naive sensibility: truth, happening,
>>techne, etc.
>> The notion that you can access the primordial, by affecting the
>>primitive or naive modality
>> of thinking seems astoundingly woodenheaded (leaving aside "reactionary").
>
> I think it is demonstrable that in "On the Origin of the Work of
>Art" Heidegger is trying to recapture the primordial, pre-metaphysical
>experience of art. Everything is expressed very much in the context of
>the "first beginning" and so it will inevitably appear naive to those
>schooled in the metaphysical subtleties of modern aesthetics.
>
> Martin Weatherston,
I think the 'reactionary' notion is still an interesting way of reading
Heidegger, especially if the texts from these times are his attempt to
engage with the 'inner truth and greatness' of National Socialism. Do you
think that Heidegger's reactionary politics, his 'new beginning', is enough
of a problem to at least call into question the notion of a primordial
pre-metaphysical experience of the 'origin'? An interesting ethical
question, or a question of Heidegger's ethics?
Malcolm
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>> Just read "Origin of the Work of Art". I can't get over H's predeliciton
>> for etymologies expressive of naive sensibility: truth, happening,
>>techne, etc.
>> The notion that you can access the primordial, by affecting the
>>primitive or naive modality
>> of thinking seems astoundingly woodenheaded (leaving aside "reactionary").
>
> I think it is demonstrable that in "On the Origin of the Work of
>Art" Heidegger is trying to recapture the primordial, pre-metaphysical
>experience of art. Everything is expressed very much in the context of
>the "first beginning" and so it will inevitably appear naive to those
>schooled in the metaphysical subtleties of modern aesthetics.
>
> Martin Weatherston,
I think the 'reactionary' notion is still an interesting way of reading
Heidegger, especially if the texts from these times are his attempt to
engage with the 'inner truth and greatness' of National Socialism. Do you
think that Heidegger's reactionary politics, his 'new beginning', is enough
of a problem to at least call into question the notion of a primordial
pre-metaphysical experience of the 'origin'? An interesting ethical
question, or a question of Heidegger's ethics?
Malcolm
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