“Heidegger” article at SEP around October
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I concur on the an-archos icon being unsuitable, but it’s Malcolm’s site
I’m surprised that Mike Wheeler was selected to do the SEP article, as everything of his I’ve read indicates he’s mainly a B&T Part I Division I kind of guy, and I’d heard, a few years ago, that Sheehan was working on the SEP article.
At least, Heidegger will finally get an entry in SEP. We’ll see how it rates against the Wikipedia and IEP articles.
— On Mon, 7/7/08, Gary Davis wrote:
> From: Gary Davis > Subject: “Heidegger” article at SEP around October > To: heidegger at an-archos.com > Date: Monday, July 7, 2008, 1:44 PM > Hi, all (again—after some years), > > Michael Wheeler replied today to a short query from me, > saying that > he’s finished his article on Heidegger for the Stanford > Encyclopedia > of Philosophy, now going through peer review and revision, > and he > expects to upload it around October. > > This should be important, as the SEP is supposed to provide > a > reliable English baseline (and standard) for its topics. I > can’t > imagine any article on Heidegger that wouldn’t be > unsatisfactory to > *someone*, and I expect I’ll be one of the dissenters. > But I’m not > going to pester Mike Wheeler with my pet themes. (He seems > to be in > the Dreyfus school of readers, rather than the > Sallis/Derrida school. > I’ve had my days with Burt, but now, of course, he > doesn’t recognize > me—or anyone.) > > Regretfully, I haven’t read any recent postings from > the group—just > now subscribed—so I feel I don’t have much right to > voice any > opinion, but: Though I can appreciate why the URL for the > group > carries a “not Swastika” icon, the effect is to > always remind anyone > of that dead issue. To me, it has the effect that’s > contrary to its > good intent. It’s metonymic of Heidegger’s own > plight: The phoney > issue occluded openness to his work after the war. I’ve > long had the > fantasy that he had to turn to the U.S., in the ’60s > and ’70s > (innocent of the issue) to get the hearing for his WORKS > that he > couldn’t get in Germany. Translators in the U.S. who > were able to > work with him on how to do the English versions were not > just > providing English translations. The focus on M.H.s later > work was > M.H.’s effort to determine how he would be read in > earlier work, > which of course he claims to already be prevalently > appropriative of > its topics tacitly as his later work is overtly. When he > reads a > poem, he is instructing you on how to read B&T. > > I would suggest that the group get rid of that URL icon, > derive a > group-accepted discussion of the political issue, and make > into a > separate page for whomever has a problem with the issue. I > was > dissatisfied with the Wikipedia page on this, so I revised > the page > in favor of Prof. Heidegger, but had my revisions erased > under the > pretext that I was biased, which resulted in the return of > the page > that was (and is, in my view) distinctly biased toward > connoting that > MH was a Nazi. So it goes. > > Gary Davis > Berkeley > > > . > > ____________________________________ > Gary Davis > P. O. Box 9247 > Berkeley, CA 94709 > Home: 510-841-6522 > Work: 510-987-3775 (8-4 PST) > email contact preferred > > _______________________________________________ > heidegger mailing list > heidegger at an-archos.com > http://an-archos.com/mailman/listinfo/he… > http://heidegger.an-archos.com/
