Heidegger

>A while back Allen wrote this:
>
>> the rather radical (that is, held by radical rabbis)
>> rabbinic notion, that the Oral Torah preceded the written Torah.
>> That is the interpretation, the way of understanding, the understood
>> precedes the Torah text itself.
>
>Allen, I have just received my copy of Heidegger’s ‘Parmenides’; the same
>day a friend brought me a copy of JG Ballard’s dys-topic novel ‘Kingdom
>Come’ [2006], whose second chapter called ‘Homecoming’ (in which the hero is
>returning to his recently deceased father’s home) begins with:
>
>”Journeys seldom end when I think they do. Too often a piece of forgotten
>baggage goes on ahead and lies in wait for me when I least expect it,
>circling an empty carousel like evidence being assembled before a trial.”
>
>Ballard’s journeying homecoming (even failed homecoming, empty circling of
>the forgotten) as the unending path of a non-sentimental philosophy. Just
>like Heidegger’s most radical destinal notion of thinking (the inception and
>the second beginning) and just like Nietzsche’s eternal return of the same,
>both of which utterly up-set the traditional and current notions of time and
>temporality (like your rabbis).
>
>Looking forward to looking back with the coming Yom Kippur.
>
>regards
>
>michaelP
>

If they’re still doing such things, or even if they’re not, may you
be inscribed, Michael.

Speaking of Yom Kippur, Ballard’s version of the circle, seen as
“evidence being assembled before a trial

Posted on Sunday, September 16th, 2007 at 6:40 pm
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