A short while ago Paul Murphy, apropos the Q of V, alluded to H's
exegesis of the "Many the wonders..." chorus in his Intro to Metaphysics.
H reads the benign, gemutlich, image of man's technological
resourcefullness vis a vis elemental nature,
a paean to humanistical finesse,...
as ferocious figural allegory for dasein's history making potentiality
in its heroically violent assault against the "overwhelming essent",
the given historical statusquo. Herein, he would have it, consists
the sufficient cause for the "wonderment" ("strangeness," uncanniness)
at history evoked in the chorus, the inauthentic onlookers,...
us hoi polloi.
Now I've read it..., am really puzzled by some??
Paul, Schlageter aside, how is this little bk not a scandal?
how is this explication not perverse? how, not be read as an
apologia for Nazism? doesn't this essentially qualify his
Letter On Humanism as a Letter Against Humanism? ...
Bob Scheetz
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