Heidegger

— On Sun, 4/19/09, michaelP wrote:
> >> “[T]he linguistic work, the poem in the narrower
> sense, has a privileged
> >> position in the domain of the arts. To see this,
> only the right concept of
> >> language is needed. In the current view, language
> is held to be a kind of
> >> communication. It […]

>> And, apparently, that’s why Germans like Obama:
>> http://www.newsweek.com/id/148636
> Having looked at the NewsWeek article, I cannot see why this Obamarama is
> relevant, but…
This bit in the newsweek article:
 
Despite their Teutonic reservoir of icy cool, the Germans have a soft spot for sweeping oratory—one of their own philosophers, Martin Heidegger, expressed this predisposition, writing that […]

Pete:
>> In “The Origin of the Work of Art,” he says that poets can give new
>> meanings to words:
>>
>> “What poetry, as illuminating projection, unfolds of unconcealedness and
>> projects ahead into the design of the figure, is the Open which poetry lets
>> happen, and indeed in such a way that only now, in […]

In a message dated 4/18/2009 12:29:55 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
that_pete at yahoo.com writes:
In “The Origin of the Work of Art,” he says that poets can give new
meanings to words:
“What poetry, as illuminating projection, unfolds of unconcealedness and
projects ahead into the design of the figure, is the Open which poetry lets
happen, and indeed in such […]

In “The Origin of the Work of Art,”  he says that poets can give new meanings to words:
 
“What poetry, as illuminating projection, unfolds of unconcealedness and projects ahead into the design of the figure, is the Open which poetry lets happen, and indeed in such a way that only now, in the modst of […]

Dear silent ones, particularly in his later thinking, Heidegger turned
towards poetry; it seems to me not in order to hear what the poets spoke,
but rather, in order to hear what language spoke, said. He chose quite
specific poets: Rilke, George, Trakl, Holderlin, Sophocles… What was it
about their poetics that brought him closer to hearing the […]

In a message dated 16/04/2009 04:42:43 GMT Standard Time, Saicho at aol.com
writes:
Hi Richard,
Thank you for the poem which I found to be powerfully poignant and
accurately illustrative of the tension between our mature subjective acceptance
and pensive acknowledgement of solitariness and on the other our courageous
attempts at a defiant accommodation […]

“Everything has a reason for being”: thus quotes someone (today) — as part
of his signature — from the Macintosh discussion list I am a member of.
What does this say?
rephrasing:
all beings have a reason for be-ing (such beings and as such beings)
or
all beings have reason to be
or
all beings have reason: to be
All such rephrasings establish […]

In a message dated 4/1/2009 1:57:41 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
In a message dated 26/03/2009 21:21:40 GMT Standard Time, Bernx at aol.com
writes:
In a message dated 3/25/2009 1:42:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
Beginnings are all relative to what has begun as a natural corollary of the
existential imperative - *that which is […]

In a message dated 26/03/2009 21:21:40 GMT Standard Time, Bernx at aol.com
writes:
In a message dated 3/25/2009 1:42:38 AM Eastern Daylight Time,
GEVANS613 at aol.com writes:
Beginnings are all relative to what has begun as a natural corollary of the
existential imperative - *that which is changeless* does not qualify as *a
that* for such *thats* could never […]