Heidegger

my yearly appearance:
since i’m a practicing sophist (trial lawyer), i recognize a good courtroom smear; an ad hominem
argument, second class. heidegger’s personal weakness, political stupidity, simple ambition, self-
imposed blindness to brutality,
or any other set of flaws makes him automatically wrong about everything?
is he also wrong about the proposition that 2 plus 2 equals […]

Hi Allen, you wrote:
>The thing about Unterwegs Zur Sprache is precisely the ambiguity of
>the expression itself.
Yes, Heidegger’s choice of booktitles is worth a study on its own.
Some are very formal
and concise, others are enigmatic or outright poetic. The title
“Unterwegs zur Sprache”
sounds as the title of a poem, and indeed, maybe the book reads
better as […]

The disturbing thing is how they try to elevate Nazism to the status of a philosophy:
Romano: “Faye counters that his philosophy grew out of his Nazism, forcing us to see it as a kind of philosophical propaganda for Nazism in a different key”
So, with this article, the situation shifts from the traditional one […]

I’ve seen some pretty strange things in the Chronicle of Higher
Education, but this is one of the most offensively ignorant pieces
I’ve read on anything, anywhere. Apparently, the author is actually
philosophy professor. I can understand not having Heideggerian
philosophy in one’s area of specialization, but then at least don’t
attempt to write about him.
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 http://chronicle.com/article/Heil-Heideg…
October 18, 2009
Heil Heidegger!
By […]

Hi John,
Yes of course, language is a means of communication. But one of the ideas
Heidegger puts forward in UzS is that for language to be a means (medium)
of communication between person A and B, language is first of all and always
already communicating with us [Der Mensch spricht nur, indem er der Sprache
entspricht. UzS:33]. Language […]

> > I hate to interrupt the silence to ask such a mundane and
>> uninteresting question, which is, where in the later Heidegger might
>> one find something of a rejection of hermeneutics, especially
>> Gadamer’s?
>>
>> Thanks,
>>
>> Allen
>
>Allen, in ‘Text and Interpretation’ Gadamer writes:
>
>”The special feature of historical experience is […]

> I hate to interrupt the silence to ask such a mundane and
> uninteresting question, which is, where in the later Heidegger might
> one find something of a rejection of hermeneutics, especially
> Gadamer’s?
>
> Thanks,
>
> Allen
Allen, in ‘Text and Interpretation’ Gadamer writes:
“The special feature of historical experience is that we stand in the midst
of an […]

I always thought that language was a means of communication, and a means to an end. I guess that is why it is easy to be bilingual, in so far as one has a need to be bilingual, and to remain bilingual. The language of bees is dance.
Not all thinking is or remains […]

Thanks to Jan et. al.
The thing about Unterwegs Zur Sprache is
precisely the ambiguity of the expression
itself. It would seem to indicate that insofar
as thinking has to do with language, it is
language( as we think and speak it) in movement
towards the Being of language(that is, the
speaking of language itself). In another place
in one […]