In the second climax of Allen's book 'Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger, he
brings us to witness how Heidegger in the introduction to his 1924 lecture
series on Aristotle, re-performs Aristotle's enthymematical suggestion that
rhetoric be the antistrophos (a parallel or echoing turn) of dialectic
(philosophy proper), by claiming that the lecture course is not philosophy
but philology (love/attending of logos). Philology in that attention be
drawn to uncovering the fundamental concepts (grundbegriffen) in their
conceptuality, and not just by relaying the concepts themselves. The
concepts-qua-concepts: the byways and highways of conceptualising itself,
the emergence and mergence of the concepts as concepts (presumably from the
confused masses of the impressions and doxa of everyday cogitation and
perception)... in short the be-ing of concepts. In this and other examples,
Heidegger can be seen to be attempting to show or catch a glimpse of be-ing
itself in the very thinking (in say, topicalising) of beings. Thus
philosophy (which is rhetorically bracketed in the course) be-comes rather,
on the way to philosophy, so that philosophy's be-ing is unfolded and laid
before both teacher and student alike in their work together... and for us
in our reading of this.
Nice reading there, Michael P. Couldn't have said it better myself, probably didn't.
Philosophers who write like Plato, Aristotle, Heidegger enact through their words an erotic
reaching-out-towards the Sache, the thing being investigated, which can only be understood through a loving appreciation of its essential nature. But at the same time the erotic cathexis toward
the Sache requires a similar erotic connectedness with the other(Da-sein as being-with)--the teacher, the student, the co-respondent, whoever might join in the words as an erotic play in at least three dimensions:
philo-logos , philo-sophos, and philia.
All this is said in the throes of a Platonic fit, teaching the Phaedrus, and the many loves of Socrates
all fused divinely together in the truest of all literary/philosophical seductions.
Best regards,
Allen
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