Paul Murphy:
"The importance of this bk lies elsewhere...than in the
"particular (political) dimension ... The Parmenidean/
"Heraclitean question is still worthy-of-thought...beyond
"the horizon of the historical period.
'Pears one of us is reading text; one, sub-text.
Here's how I see the framework of IM:
1. opens with jeremiad about the decline of the spirit of history,
darkening of the earth, the West gone to seed in the techno-manic
USSR/USA, etc., and pronounces it the especial burden of philosophy
to provide the moral locus (vulgarly, ideology) from which a nation
can generate a pattern of meaning into a history and culture.
2....then extensively developes the onto-theological premise that
"being/thinking" is wholly other, and that its essence consists
in a creative becoming, i.e. non/anti-"traditional" (i.e. by way of
contemptuously dismissing the two main available alternatives:
marxian humanism and "Platonism for the masses", Christianity).
3....and concludes with an ontological romance equivalent of
Nietzsche's anti-christ doing Junger's "total war" ...and catastrophe.
with Heraclitus, Parmenades, Sophocles the compounding mythopoeic
functions. And the crowning proof of this (i.e., that its focus is not
scholarship and "being and thinking")is manifest in the
outrage he does on the Antigone chorus...which, bitter
irony, likely resulted from the felt necessity of wrenching it
to a sufficient remove from its obvious Western-thematic reflection
in the image of the USA.
Thanks again,
Bob Scheetz
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"The importance of this bk lies elsewhere...than in the
"particular (political) dimension ... The Parmenidean/
"Heraclitean question is still worthy-of-thought...beyond
"the horizon of the historical period.
'Pears one of us is reading text; one, sub-text.
Here's how I see the framework of IM:
1. opens with jeremiad about the decline of the spirit of history,
darkening of the earth, the West gone to seed in the techno-manic
USSR/USA, etc., and pronounces it the especial burden of philosophy
to provide the moral locus (vulgarly, ideology) from which a nation
can generate a pattern of meaning into a history and culture.
2....then extensively developes the onto-theological premise that
"being/thinking" is wholly other, and that its essence consists
in a creative becoming, i.e. non/anti-"traditional" (i.e. by way of
contemptuously dismissing the two main available alternatives:
marxian humanism and "Platonism for the masses", Christianity).
3....and concludes with an ontological romance equivalent of
Nietzsche's anti-christ doing Junger's "total war" ...and catastrophe.
with Heraclitus, Parmenades, Sophocles the compounding mythopoeic
functions. And the crowning proof of this (i.e., that its focus is not
scholarship and "being and thinking")is manifest in the
outrage he does on the Antigone chorus...which, bitter
irony, likely resulted from the felt necessity of wrenching it
to a sufficient remove from its obvious Western-thematic reflection
in the image of the USA.
Thanks again,
Bob Scheetz
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