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

Posted on Saturday, September 15th, 2007 at 12:35 pm
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