Re: Nietzsche and the Philosophes


Subject: Re: Nietzsche and the Philosophes
From: William Hochman (wh14@is9.nyu.edu)
Date: Fri Jun 30 2000 - 09:55:43 GMT


With my books in boxes I hesistate to comment, but I seem to recall that
Heidegger used the german word "Dasein" (sp?) to enhance his emphasis on
being. Heidegger and Husserol may have expressed some of the most far
reaching ideas in our present culture, but I think many on the list may
find American philosophers like John Dewey, Susanne K. Langer, and Richard
Rorty interesting as well. I have been able to make some sense of German
philosophy (particularly when reading Wolfgang Iser and considering
Phenomological ways of reading), but I don't read it in German and tend to
think better with American English. I'm not arguing that Dewey, Langer
and Rorty are better so much as simply admitting that they "sing" to me a
bit more clearly than Kant, Husserol and Heidegger. I've focussed most of
my philosphical inquiry with my love of literature and really have to
thank all the thinkers in this post (as well as on this list!) for their
help, will

On Thu, 29 Jun 2000, Anna Lewandowski wrote:

> >Heideggar seems to think that you should be able to pick up Being and
> >Time and start from scratch, reading it all and mostly understanding
> >it... and maybe you can.
>
> Dive right into Heidegger and be able to understand it without any
> intro? No. Here is my favorite sentence from Heidegger: Being is always
> the being of a being. Um... yeah it is... I've never read any other
> philosopher who uses the word being in a sentence more than he does. Not
> only that but he makes up the weirdest word phrases to describe things,
> like "ready-to-hand" and "Being-in-the-world" and stuff like that. But
> other than those little quirks, I really enjoyed Heidegger. I liked his
> ideas on anxiety and death.
>
> But then again I had an excellent teacher for "Being and Time" so that
> may influence my feelings a bit about ole Martin...
>
> But no matter how great a teacher you have - you can't just start
> Heidegger from scratch and expect to understand it... I mean I consider
> myself a fairly intelligent person and I get completely baffled. The
> first semester we did Heidegger, we spent an entire week on page 10 of
> "Being and Time" alone!
>
> Anna
>
> PS Sorry if I rambled up there - I don't think I have a coherent thought
> in my head now... :)
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