Heidegger

In a message dated 7/28/2008 6:17:51 PM Eastern Daylight Time,
tgeorgescu at home.nl writes:

Frankly I never understood what Heidegger has to do with postmodernism.
Well, except his Freudian slip “by choosing your assumptions you are able
demonstrate anything”. Reading his books I figured out that he never liked
the postmodernists, and that they should not have liked him. Heidegger was
100% a philosopher, in the ancient tradition of episteme=science=aletheia.
He could never have agreed with “episteme is the latest fashion from Paris”.

Dear Tudor;
Since we agree too much from the same standpoints and disagree from other
standpoints it is difficult to keep a dialogue logical. Accordingly, it is
possible to understand that post modernisim is not a philosophy but a mood just as
Heidegger’s mood is not philosophy. How to unscramble the two is perhaps
impossible except for Goethe who was able to pass off all that was moodishly
philosophical as simply gehfhul and which is the mood of being for the hoi polloi.
The question here is whether the thinker is ever able to shed his feelings or
become the victim to them as is the case with Jud. And of course all feeling
runs in the liquid of either tear drops or the frenzy of rhetorical poiea.
Bernard

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