> On Wed, 23 Aug 1995, Malgosia Askanas wrote:
>
> > Do we not learn, also,
> > from listening to each other's acts of aggression, ruptures, violences,
> > boredoms, provocations, subterfuges? Is learning really married to
> > "inoffensiveness"?
> >
> > Did Heidegger have a position on this?
> >
>
> And Alan responds;
>
> And isn't his position one of silence, remarks askew in relation to the
> Holocaust? Certainly he was not inoffensive. There's good article related
> to this in the current Graduate Faculty Philosophy Journal (New School) by
> Johannes Fritsche, On Brinks and Bridges in Heidegger.
>
> Alan
And I would agree that this is part of my feelings of
guilt about my recent musings with Heidegger, one that
also stood in the way of actually reading him for the
longest time.
(an aside, on the phusis/physis thing ... I've
been working that one through with the help of
Lecoue-lebarthe (name completely misspelled but
it is in the other room and my orthography is
really ) ... but I am not sure of the analysis
offered of it, the condemnation of its invocation.
Maybe this comes from the Anaximander fragment where
the physis I read is not the physis of Aristotle et
al. -- more the real ... there are many ways to
read. One condemns as outright critique, one
reformulates in the sense of plain truth, in the
sense of using the given for other ends, to work
it against itself in order to see the value and
respect inherent. This has something to do with
it all.)
Funny thing, though, through a friend I was once sleeping
with who is an ardent Arendtian I was given an opening ...
when they cast off a comment something to the effect of,
"I can't believe she slept with that man ..."