I think it's best not thought of as a line at all. The line is a=20
reduction. Death, for us, is irreducibly a matter of *meaning* and=20
understanding in/for which the schema of the line participates on rarely=20
without problematic abstraction.
As for the "death of the father", like so many different themes which=20
surface here and there on the "left side of things" (I guess...), it is a=
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classic case of the failure to grasp the issue of (non)violence: violent=20
thought/action kills the father, nonviolent thoughtaction approaches the=20
problem of the *tyrant*, leaving *paternality* intact, albeit minus its=20
*dominance*. It is a serious failing to attach *paternalism* as such,=20
since there are, after all, fathers. Better to say, "the death of the=20
tyrant".=20
Tom B.
On Sat, 17 Aug 1996, M.Eldred_artefact wrote:
> Cologne, 17 August 1996
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> Iain has written a fascinating post about Oedipus, death and patricide, e=
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> by making a connection with "doing violence to the father" (Sophist 241d)=
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> Parmenides and his maintaining that "not only what is non-being is in a c=
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> way but also that what is being conversely is in some way not being" (241=
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> ("being" here verbally-participially.)
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> I cannot do justice to Iain's post at the moment and off the cuff, but it=
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> there are problems of demarcation or delimitation between being and non-b=
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> Does Heidegger return to the question of being in its de-limit-ation? Doe=
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> metaphysics attempt to draw the line? Does the thinking of being bring th=
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> into question? Could this mean, as one of its consequences, that the line=
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> between life and death could become osmotic?=20
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> Heidegger's voluminous early 'Sophistes' lectures (GA 19), which I have n=
ot yet=20
> read, could help here, perhaps.=20
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> Chaire apeiron,
> Michael
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