On Thu, 12 Oct 1995, R. or A. Wendel wrote:
> What is the German for monstruous?
> Are there other sites in Heidegger that come to mind?
> Or are these monstrosities merely appearing to me as so many phantasms,
> ghosts, goblins, gremlins so appropriate to the season, the time, the age,
> the Geisterstunde???
The German word for monstrous is ungeheuer. For a discussion of it,
either of Heidegger's analyses of the choral song from the Antigone would
do (Introduction to Metaphysics and GA 53 (52?) "Der Ister").
Chris
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> What is the German for monstruous?
> Are there other sites in Heidegger that come to mind?
> Or are these monstrosities merely appearing to me as so many phantasms,
> ghosts, goblins, gremlins so appropriate to the season, the time, the age,
> the Geisterstunde???
The German word for monstrous is ungeheuer. For a discussion of it,
either of Heidegger's analyses of the choral song from the Antigone would
do (Introduction to Metaphysics and GA 53 (52?) "Der Ister").
Chris
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