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Dear Warren,
There is an awful lot written on die Kehre, almost all of it unhelpful. =
The following might be of use:
1 Friedrich-Wilhelm von Herrmann - "Way and method: hermeneutic =
phenomenology in thinking the history of being" in "Critical Heidegger" =
ed Christopher McCann, London, 1996
- von Herrmann is one of the editors of the Gesamtausgabe
2 Heinrich Wiegand Petzet - "Encounters and Dialogues with Martin =
Heidegger" trans Parvis Emad and Kenneth Maly, Chicago, Chicago =
University Press 1993, pp 90-98 ("Reflections on the Speigel Interview")
Almost every commentator takes it for granted that we all know just what =
the "turn" (die Kehre) is, and assumes that it is the key to reading =
Heidegger's work. The problem is that what Heidegger himself said "die =
Kehre" was is nothing like what the commentators say that it is, and =
that it very rarely occurs to anyone to take what Heidegger himself says =
about die Kehre seriously. So we read with intense seriousness the =
texts of a man whose understanding of these texts we are taught to =
ignore. We remind ourselves (to justify this) that there is, as one =
author puts it, no "mens auctoris", and anyway (we tell ourselves), =
"after Derrida aren't all texts read this way?"
If you *really* want to understand die Kehre, read Martin Heidegger, =
"Grundfragen der Philosophie", Gesamtausgabe Band 45, Frankfurt, =
Klostermann, 1984, which is translated as "Basic Questions of =
Philosophy" by Richard Rojcewicz and Andre Schuwer, Bloomington, Indiana =
University Press, 1994.
If you want to get some ides of where the common (mis)conception of die =
Kehre comes from, in English read the opening section of William J =
Richardson's book "Heidegger - from Phenomenology to Thought" and =
Heidegger's own Foreword to this text (Dordrecht, Nijhoff, 1963). =
Always bear in mind the voice in which Heidegger makes his comments - =
that he appears to confirm Richardson's analysis (everyone assumed he =
did) but in fact is saying something quite different. In German the =
origin (now translated) is summarised in Karl Loewith - Heidegger, =
Denker in Duerftiger Zeit published in Saemtliche Schriften Ban 8, =
Metzler, Stuttgart, translated by George Steiner as "Martin Heidegger - =
European Nihilism" ed Richard Wolin, New York, Columbia University =
Press, 1995. Bear in mind that there were two versions of this paper, =
one in 1953, the second in 1960-something. Only the latter has made it =
into these books.
Laurence
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